SEE Media Observatory publishes a research report on much neglected but valuable positive examples of media policy, of institutions fighting corruption, as well as of media and journalism in the region.

 

Our analysis of good practices in the field of media integrity protection is rooted in the study carried out under the SEE Media Observatory project, and published in 2014 in the book Media Integrity Matters. The research was conducted in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia, and largely explained how corrupt relations in the media system prevent the media in these countries from serving the public interest. However, it did identify some positive examples and good practices where either the regulatory framework and institutions or the media with their journalism were contributing to the protection of media integrity and public interest. In 2015, the Observatory team continued to research certain segments of the relations that corrupt media systems in these countries, particularly state-media financial relations. Montenegro, Kosovo and Turkey were additionally included in the research.

 

The smaller-scale research presented here attempts to illuminate certain positive examples of media policy, of institutions fighting corruption, as well as of media and journalism in the region covered by the 2014 Media Integrity Matters report. The 2014 media integrity research reports contained a number of such examples from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and thus we focused on these three countries.