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Perugia Journalism Festival SEEMO Panel: Who… – photo gallery
Aleksandra Bogdani
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
Barbara Fabro
Central European Initiative
Milorad Ivanovic
editor-in-chief Newsweek Serbia
Sasa Lekovic
founder Investigative Journalism Center
Cristian Niculescu
Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism
Oliver Vujovic
secretary-general SEEMO
Perugia Journalism Festival SEEMO Panel: Who…
Who's fighting against corruption in SE Europe: the media or the police?
Journalists in South East and Central Europe are often filling an institutional gap and doing investigations in cases of corruption instead of state authorities, including investigation of corruption inside the police. Instead of state authorities, journalist examine business practices of oligarchs, find people on wanted lists, investigate questionable deals involving family members of politicians in power, compare the reported salaries with the extravagant lifestyles of managers working in public companies, investigating financial and other irregularities in the churches. Journalists are working on these issues closely with civil society organisations, national authorities and financial institutions, and also international anti-corruption groups. Journalists do it in difficult conditions, and sometimes at great personal risk. Good investigative journalists may expose criminality and help bring criminals to justice, but they are not officers of the law.
International Journalism Festival Perugia, SEEMO panel – photo gallery
Radka Betcheva
European Broadcasting Union
Claudio Cappon
vice president 2009-14 EBU
Eva Ciuk
RAI Regional News Friuli Venezia Giulia
Mentor Shala
director RTV Kosovo
Oliver Vujovic
secretary-general SEEMO
International Journalism Festival Perugia, SEEMO panel
SEEMO panel in Perugia 2015: Public radio and television broadcasting stations in East and South-East Europe are creating an independent news system. Some countries have already started reforms and laws of reorganization of the public service, some of which are very advanced. The goal is often difficult to achieve, particularly for countries during transition, where freedom of the media has been a concern to many international organizations that are fighting for freedom of expression and information for years. We will reflect on the role and especially on the future of public service broadcasting which is extremely important at a time when even RAI, Italy’s national public broadcasting company, is working on one of the biggest reforms of the news system in its history. With Radka Betcheva (European Broadcasting Union), Claudio Cappon (vice president 2009-14 EBU), Eva Ciuk (RAI Regional News Friuli Venezia Giulia), Mentor Shala (director RTV Kosovo), Oliver Vujovic (secretary-general SEEMO),
SEEMO PANEL DISCUSSION | Libertà dei media nei paesi dell’Europa dell’est – Press Freedom i Eastern Europe 17:00 – 18:30 sabato 27/04/2013 – Centro Servizi G. Alessi – gallery
Tamas Bodoky
editor and director Atlatszo.hu
Eva Ciuk
RAI Regional News Friuli Venezia Giulia
Marko Rakar
president Windmill
Oliver Vujovic
secretary-general SEEMO
SEEMO PANEL DISCUSSION | Libertà dei media nei paesi dell’Europa dell’est – Press Freedom i Eastern Europe 17:00 – 18:30 sabato 27/04/2013 – Centro Servizi G. Alessi
SEEMO panel during the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. For years, media freedom in Eastern Europe has been a cause for concern for many international organizations which have fought for the freedom of expression and information. The cases of attacks on journalists in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria are emblematic, while the Balkan countries are a special case as they experienced a transition period from a post-war to a European context. However, the efforts of the younger generation to find their own independent voice – often made possible by the widespread use of new media – offer encouraging signs for the future. Organised in association with Associazione Giornalisti Scuola di Perugia and EstOvest.
