Media Center Belgrade

Media Centre is a unique institution in Belgrade.

It was founded on 1 July 1994 upon the initiative of a group of independent journalists and their associations to soon become a true meeting place for independent journalists and media in Yugoslavia.

Media Center enables journalists unobstructed work including the use of the Centre's technical facilities.

Foreign journalists are, in addition, offered other professional services - briefings, interviews, meetings with competent personalities, travels in the country, etc.

The premises of Media Centre also house the seat of the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia (IJAS). IJAS has been the member of the International Federation of Journalists since October 1994.

Activities of Media Centre include publishing, research and education. Media Centre has a complete data base on all electronic and printed media in Serbia. Researchers of Media Center are about to complete a comprehensive project called Hate Speech which will try to give the answer to the key question of the role and importance of the media in initiating the war in the former Yugoslavia. The first few chapters of this project will be printed soon, in a form of a special publication.

Educational activities of Media Center in 1996 developed through three journalist schools: a school for journalists of printed media, organized with Press Now Amsterdam (June 1996) and two schools for reporters of Yugoslav radio stations, organized with BBC World Training Service, London (June and October 1996).

In cooperation with Article 19 from London Media Center organized two seminars on media in the Balkans, the second of which "Media Freedom - A Precondition for Reconciliation" held in Belgrade from June 16 to 18, 1996, gathered journalists from all formerly) Yugoslav republics and other countries of the Balkans, for the first time after the war on the territories of the former Yugoslavia. In parallel, Media Center continues to fulfil its main purpose: it remains the centre of communication, information and solidarity of independent journalists, their media and associations.

Media Center also cooperates with similar domestic and foreign institutions, especially from the former Yugoslavia.

The attainment of our plans and projects depends on cooperation, support and assistance of friends who care for truly free journalism, as an essential element of developing democracy and human rights.

In the sphere of publishing, Media Center started a series entitled Press Documents. So far the following four books have come out of press:

General Manager
Hari Stajner

Mail us: mediac@opennet.org

http://207.10.94.56/media-centar/uvod.html

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