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Na pitanja o bezbednosti novinara i medija, saradnje sa udruženjima i institucijama države, političkim pritiscima, edukaciji, finansiranju i poslovanju odgovarali su urednici i menadžment brojnih medija iz Niša, Vranja, Pirota, Bujanovca, Dimitrovgrada i drugih gradova sa juga Srbije.

Autorke izveštaja Jana Jacić i Jelena Milenković zaključile su u izveštaju da su novinari na jugu Srbije izloženi svim oblicima ugrožavanja bezbednosti – političkim pritiscima, verbalnim pretnjama, a na protestima lako mogu postati i meta fizičkih napada, dok im je bezbednost ugrožena i od strane policije i Bezbednosno-informativne agencije.

Opstanak manjih nezavisnih redakcija na upitan je zbog nestabilnosti finansija, a kao poseban problem sagovornici istuču udaljenost od centra, odnosno Beograda, i kada je u pitanju saradnja sa novinarskim udruženjima, i kada je u pitanju pristup donatorskim fondovima. Upravo finansijsku nestabilnost koriste oni kojima nezavisno novinarstvo ne ide u prilog, te je stoga na jugu Srbije aktivan mehanizam SLAPP tužbi, koji služi da ih novčano iscrpi.

Ceo izveštaj o stanju medija koji izveštavaju na jugu Srbije možete pogledati ovde.

Projekat "Sistem prevencije nasilja i zaštite novinara" podržan je od strane Evropske Unije.

Report on Media Operating in Southern Serbia

Within the project "Violence Prevention System and Protection of Journalists", the Association of Independent Electronic Media with partners Center for Development of Local Media (CRLM) from Požarevac and Insider TV strives to improve the system of protection of journalists and media workers. One of the activities of the project is the preparation of a report by the CRLM on the state of local media, both in terms of security and financial and every other relevant aspect for the independence and professionalism of the media.

The editors and management of numerous media outlets from Niš, Vranje, Pirot, Bujanovac, Dimitrovgrad and other cities from the south of Serbia answered questions about the safety of journalists and the media, cooperation with associations and state institutions, political pressures, education, financing and business.

The authors of the report, Jana Jacić and Jelena Milenković, concluded in the report that journalists in the south of Serbia are exposed to all forms of security threats - political pressure, verbal threats, and at protests they can easily become the target of physical attacks, while their security is also threatened by the police and the Security and Information Agency.

The survival of smaller independent newsrooms is questionable due to financial instability, and interlocutors point out the distance from the center, i.e. Belgrade, as a special problem, both when it comes to cooperation with journalistic associations, and when it comes to access to donor funds.It is financial instability that is used by those who do not favor independent journalism, which is why the mechanism of SLAPP lawsuits is active in the south of Serbia, which serves to exhaust them financially.

You can view the entire report on the state of the media reporting in the south of Serbia here.

The project "System for preventing violence and protecting journalists" is supported by the European Union.