Professional standards

The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) called on the media to respect ethical and professional standards defined by the Journalistic Code of Conduct while reporting on tragic events and accidents. The NUNS statement says that the Association was contacted by the mother of a person who had recently committed suicide, telling them that the deceased's family and friends were deeply hurt by the fact that the news about the suicide was published in a large number of media outlets under the title "Psychiatric Patient Commits Suicide".
(Beta,Politika, Kurir, UNS, NUNS, 05.07.2012)

Ivan Ivanovic gave his first interview to Croatian media, in which he said to Croatians that it was not his intention to insult them in his programme broadcast by TV Prva, but to make fun, reports Press.
(Press, 05.07.2012)

Diplomat Biljana Petkovic defended yesterday her master thesis on investigative journalism of Milo Nedeljkovic at the Faculty of Humanistic Sciences in Belgrade. Biljana Petrovic is a diplomat from Stockholm. The committee recommended that her work be published as a contribution to analysis of the character and achievements of a famous Serbian ethnologist and the founder of Serbian investigative journalism.
(Press, 05.07.2012)

Dusan Miklja writes: "The so-called summer programme schedule, especially on private TV stations, has turned into a chaos. The programme is being arbitrarily changed, removed or rescheduled, even in the case of well-established news programmes, resulting in a mess that seemingly makes no sense. However, you would be mistaken to think that this madness is completely random: everything is ruled by one thing only – the ratings.
(Blic, 12.07.2012)

Assessments, awards, training courses and competitions

The fifth "Weekend Media Festival", which is the largest regional communication festival, will be held this year on September 20-23 in the festival premises of the old Tobacco Factory in Rovinj. For the fifth year in a row, the Festival will bring together domestic and regional media, marketing and PR professionals. The president of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV), Nenad Canak, and the director of Radio-Television Serbia (RTS), Aleksandar Tijanic, will speak at the Festival.
(Pregled, NUNS, UNS, 05.07.2012, Beta, Press, 09.07.2012)

Journalists with the newspaper Dnevnik and TV Pink, Dragan Milivojevic and Milan Atanasijevic, respectively, are the recipients of the monthly award for the best media report on trading of financial derivatives via FOREX platform given by "FX-Leader" from Belgrade.
(Dnevnik, 13.07.2012)

Anniversaries

In the eleventh year of its existence and its hundredth issue, the magazine for media professionals Link appeared with a new co-publisher. The magazine has discussed and analyzed crucial topics from all media-related fields. The Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) has offered its support to the founder of this unique monthly magazine, Rastislav Durman, and the magazine's publisher, the Media Art Content company, which will probably ensure the future existence of an important specialized publication. During the last decade, with cooperation of many media experts from Serbia and abroad, Link has initiated, analyzed and discussed numerous significant topics from all areas related to today's media, from the press to the Internet, with equal attention given both to the radio and television. The magazine has discussed both ethical and technical issues, current legislation, and technologies of the future, and at the same time reported on scientific and professional events organized by media professionals, offered its recommendations on domestic and foreign books, and published interviews with renowned individuals from the media scene.
(Politika, UNS, 18.07.2012)

In Memoriam

A retired journalist with Politika Ekspres and a long-time member of the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS), Dragomir Popovic, passed away at the age of 58 after a long and difficult illness, says UNS.
(Beta, Danas, Politika, 12.07.2012)

Petar Popovic – a journalist, music and theater critic, editor of newspapers Borba, Nasa Borba and Danas – has passed away in Novi Sad at the age of 78. Among all other duties and positions that he held in the field of journalism and cultural institutions since his early years, Petar Popovic was a gifted poet and a translator of poetry of numerous Hungarian poets.
(Tanjug, Dnevnik, Danas, Politika, 14.07.2012)