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Biweekly NOVI PRELOM
The paper was started in 1992 under the name Prelom. The
founder was Liberal party, but Prelom’s editorial policy was
going beyond the party’s political programme. It was aimed
to try to make an impact on public opinion regarding acceptance
of some basic civilisation values: development of democracy,
creation of civil society, equal rights and decent life of all
citizens regardless to which ethnic and religious group they
belong to. On the other hand it was strongly critical towards war
and nationalist policy of the ruling Serbian Democratic Party.
Prelom was the only media on the territory under Bosnian Serb
control which was openly dealing with all the horror of
"ethnic cleansing", especially in Banja Luka area.
Because of such position, people working for the paper were under
constant pressures and open threats, including those for their
lives. Due to forced mobilisation of editors and journalists on
one hand, and to complete lack of finances to continue on the
other, the paper stopped being issued in 1993. Immediately after
Dayton Accord was signed, the paper was re-started under the name
Novi (New) Prelom. The values its editorial policy was standing
for remained the same. In the end of 1996, the media house -
Media Centre Prelom - was established and the paper was also
formally independent from any party policy. The main projects and
problems of Media Centre Prelom in this year are the following:
1. The independent radio station under the name Prelom is planned
to start broadcasting. The frequency was got in a free
competition for an extremely high price and the needed basic
equipment is to be provided by USAID. Radio Prelom will be the
first independent non-commercial radio station with news
programme in Banja Luka region. The station will be opened for
cooperation with independent senders from Federation of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as from those in other parts of
former Yugoslavia.
2. Biweekly Novi Prelom plans to start a supplement on 8 pages
called Prelom Plus which would have an education profile - to
offer people possibility to learn about their citizen rights - in
order to change the political culture of population. However,
this project is not financially covered up to now.
3. Novi Prelom plans to keep on and further develop cooperation
with the papers from the Federation. Presently, it is going on
with the magazine Dani in Sarajevo and Front Slobode in Tuzla,
but the intention is to broaden it.
Because of its open critics of the political establishment in
Republika Srpska, Novi Prelom is under constant pressure,
nowadays mostly economic ones. Due to extremely poor conditions
people are living in it can not expect that some higher
circulation could be sold. As there is no real market economy,
the paper can not count on incomes from advertisements. Because
of all these circumstances, biweekly Novi Prelom and the radio
station Prelom can hardly survive on the media scene without
foreign donations.
Address: Cara Lazara 6, 78 000 Banja Luka
Tel/Fax: + 381 78 60 676; 61 437
E-mail: MCPRELOM@ETF-BL.RSTEL.NET
Contact persons: Mr. Miodrag Zivanovic, Director
Mr.Miso Vidovic, Editor-in-chief
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Zürich, Switzerland