Privatisation of minority language media in Serbia: Liberation or disappearance?
Monitoring the implementation of new media legislation in Serbia.
Monitoring the implementation of new media legislation in Serbia.
According to the 2014 Law on Public Information and Media, the remaining state-owned media in Serbia should be privatised by 1 July 2015. However, on the eve of the privatisation deadline, the government retreated from the previous plan. Faced by obstruction of the prescribed procedures from different actors, it proposed changes of the law. It now specifies 31 October 2015 as a new deadline.
This report examines the challenges the mandatory privatisation of media and other provisions of the new Law on Public Information and Media bring to the system of dissemination of information for national minorities in their native languages. It also offers recommendations that could provide viable solutions to financially sustainable, independent and quality minority media outlets. The report is based on a study of relevant literature and on five in-dept interviews and three informative conversations with a variety of actors related to the issue of minority media, conducted specifically for this report in spring 2015.
The whole report is available here.
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Media Integrity
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