With the recent economic crisis in Greece, unprecedented challenges to centralised European policy, and the lack of consensus on the ongoing refugee crisis, many would agree that Europe faces its greatest ever predicament. Slavoj Žižek, regarded as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’ (The New Republic), and Yanis Varoufakis, self-described ‘erratic Marxist’ and economic…
English
23. nov 2015.
Workshop held under the auspices of the project “What is Serbia silent about?”
Local media journalists selected through the application process of the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, Ljubica Jocić, Violeta Glišić, Ana Aćimov, Natalija Jakovljević-Ivanić and Denis Kolundžija, were introduced to investigative journalism techniques
English
22. nov 2015.
Dragan J. Vučićević on TV Pink: This is no longer funny
We asked Tamara Skrozza to write an article about the anthological guest appearance of Informer editor Dragan J. Vučićević on TV Pink as soon as possible, because tomorrow, as D. J. V. announced, there will be a coup and a question will arise as to whether we will be able to publish the article after…
English
09. nov 2015.
How much does the Speak-Up conference in Brussels really contribute to media freedom in Serbia?
Commissioner Hahn reiterated at the Speak-Up Conference that the issue of media freedom is central to Serbia’s EU integration process. Among some participants, however, criticism could be heard that the pressures on the government are ineffective and no progress has been made in the fight for greater media freedom and freedom of expression
English
06. nov 2015.
Participants of “What is Serbia Silent About?” program selected
Among many quality proposals for local analytical and investigative journalistic stories, five candidates were selected
English
06. nov 2015.
I do not respond to the questions of workers of “Informer”, only journalists
After the first announcement of a feuilleton series on the financing of KRIK, BIRN and CINS, which have been declared in a warrant as organisations with “wrongful intent”, foreign mercenaries who want to provoke chaos and overthrow the government, the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia refused to answer the questions of…
English
19. okt 2015.
Brankica Stanković on the price of seeking the truth: I’ll spend my whole life looking over my shoulder on the street to see if anyone’s behind me
The author of TV show “Insajder” on the new portal she is putting together, responsible journalism and her biggest success – Insajder, and maintaining the team that created it; on what six years of police protection feels like and why she doesn’t go out anywhere anymore; on the disgraceful release of the biggest football hooligans;…
English, Pritisci i napadi
14. okt 2015.
Reporter’s impression: the trial for Ćuruvija’s murder will last for years
The case of the murder of a journalist, during a period when today’s prime minister was then minister of information, should be by no means “ordinary”. However, media interest in this court case is not nearly proportionate to the importance of the event
English
14. sep 2015.
First Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation Digital Journalism School completed
Ljubinka Ljujić from Prijepolje and Marija Vučić from Niš, the most successful students, are to be rewarded by study trip abroad
English
02. sep 2015.
In Full: Journalist Khadija Ismayilova’s Final Statement to Azerbaijan Court
The following text is from Khadija Ismayilova’s statement given today to Azerbaijan’s Court of Grave Crimes in Baku
English
19. avg 2015.
Political Propaganda on TV Prva: Superminister Vučić’s Sysyphean Day
If it’s true, as a journalist insisted, that “A Day with the Prime Minister” is about a “usual working day,” one has to wonder whether TV Prva, using national channel, is trying to say that the Prime Minister really solves every problem in Serbia every single day.
Source: Balkanist
English
17. jul 2015.
Belgrade Press on the Attack on the Prime Minister: The Tribulation of Vučić the Peacemaker
While the prime minister extends his hand of reconciliation to the Bosniaks, the media he controls refer to them as butchers, killers and extremists. The image representing Vučić to the world as a peaceful politician stands in stark contrast to the messages by which the media, using hate speech, form the domestic public opinion
English
10. jul 2015.
Reporting on Srebrenica, July ’95: Independent Media Could Not Believe It, Pro-Government Ones Glorified War Criminals
TV Belgrade News did not contain any footage from the battlefields, and majority of Serbian media did not pose any questions or investigated what had been going on in the war zone during the “conquest” of the UN safe area. For them, Srebrenica was just another episode of the war in which victims are taken…
English
07. jul 2015.
Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation Opens the School of Digital Journalism
Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation started a training course for journalists from six cities in Serbia. Renowned journalists Olja Bećković, Magda Janjić and Predrag Blagojević among lecturers
English
05. jun 2015.
We Knew the Murderers’ Identities From the Beginning, But Now We Can Prove It
Why weren’t they able to collect evidence until 2014? What were the turning points in their investigation? Why does he trust Milorad Ulemek? Whom else does he expect to see in the witness stand during the trial? What has the Serbian Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists managed to accomplish? These are some…
English
04. jun 2015.
The first Internet digital journalism training course
English
01. jun 2015.
There Will Be Many Trial Obstruction Attempts
For the occasion of start of trial to the accused of Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder, the President of the Journalists Murders Investigation Committee Veran Matić speaks of missed opportunities to solve this murder in the last 16 years, how the Committee brought to life the halted investigation, the good cooperation with the Security Information Agency (BIA)…
English
21. apr 2015.
Modern Censorship in Action
A type of modern censorship does exist in Serbia and is exhibited in the smothering of media pluralism and free exchange of different ideas and opinions in the public sphere and as a result all of society suffers
English
16. apr 2015.
Serbia cannot afford the luxury of having the Ćuruvija case, once again, swept under the rug
The OSCE Media Freedom Representative, Dunja Mijatović, welcomes the beginning of the trial for the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija and she expects the identity of the person responsible for his liquidation to be discovered
English, Pritisci i napadi
10. apr 2015.
Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation announcement on the occassion of Slavko Ćuruvija memorial day
Saturday, April 11 shall mark 16 years from the day when Slavko Ćuruvija was murdered. Almost exactly on the memorial day, 16 years on, the preparatory hearing will be held for the persons indicted for this murder. This trial is important not only for its potential to bring a closure for one of the darkest…