Press releases
April 25, 2024
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Sarajevo, April 25, 2024. – The Board of Directors of the BH Journalists Association and the Helpline for Journalists strongly condemn the inappropriate statements of Elmedin Konaković, Minister of Foreign Affairs of...
April 11, 2024
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Media freedom advocates condemn 25 years of impunity for Ćuruvija’s murder Commemorating 25 years since the brutal murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, media freedom organizations unite to condemn continued impunity...
April 5, 2024
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The SafeJournalists Network condemns in the strongest pressure and the brutal insults address by Milan Kovac, mayor of Sipovo and prominent member of Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) political party, to Bojana...
April 4, 2024
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Sarajevo/Banja Luka 4/4/2024. The Board of Directors of the BH Journalists Association and the Journalists’ Helpline (FMHL) strongly condemn the brutal insults and vulgar address of Mayor of municipality of Šipovo and...
April 4, 2024
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The SafeJournalists Network is troubled by the coordinated efforts to undermine Citizens Channel, a non-profit and independent media outlet in Albania. Recent actions to report and remove Citizen Channel’s content from their...
Events
March 29, 2024
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Sarajevo, 29.3.2024. At the beginning of last year, the situation in Republika Srpska worsened, especially when amendments to the Criminal Code criminalizing defamation were adopted. Then followed the announcements of the...
March 29, 2024
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Mostar, 27.3.2024. Media professionals in Bosnia and Herzegovina would feel safer if there was a Registry of cyber bullies, but also if the legal regulations were changed and adapted to the current problems that journalists...
March 14, 2024
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Zenica, 14.3.2024. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, we should demand from the state the construction of a long-term, comprehensive and institutional response to the frequent cyber violence and the increase in online threats to the...
February 27, 2024
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The European Parliament today adopted with an overwhelming majority (546 in favour, 47 against, 31 abstentions) the Anti-SLAPP Directive, intended to protect journalists and media outlets from abusive litigations. The European...
February 23, 2024
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A UK High Court hearing to determine whether Julian Assange will be allowed a final appeal against his extradition to the United States concluded with no immediate decision, leaving the fate of the WikiLeaks publisher hanging...
From Media
March 22, 2024
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New research by the Reuters Institute analyses the gender representation of senior editors in major news outlets across five continents, recording that women fill only 24% of senior editorial roles in the markets surveyed. The...
March 9, 2024
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Press release from a section of the membership of the P.E.N. Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina We, the undersigned members of the PEN Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, unconditionally condemn the attacks on Franja Šarčević,...
March 8, 2024
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On the International Women’s Day, the SafeJournalists Network points out that the position of women journalists in the Western Balkans remains difficult. Although women journalists usually work under similar conditions as...
February 23, 2024
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Borka Rudić, general secretary of the BH Journalists Association (BHJA), speaks about the pressure on all those who think freely, who, since the passing of the “law on foreign agents”, which criminalizes...
August 10, 2023
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EFJ Director Renate Schroeder wrote about the European Media Freedom Act in an article originally published in Social Europe. Read the article in its entirety here: Amid a sea of online misinformation, in a ‘polycrisis’ world...
Jobs
July 27, 2023
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The INFOHOUSE Foundation is looking for six journalists within the project “Improved evidence-based journalism for independent media”. Applications until 31.08.2023. Reference number: GIZ 2.2. /2023. 1. ABOUT THE...
March 30, 2023
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The Bavarian Journalists’ Association (BJV) is announcing the “Special Award Ukraine” Europe-wide as part of its competition for Press Freedom Day. The prize is valued at 1,000 euros. The call for entries is...
September 14, 2022
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Deadline: 1 October Since 1992, Humanitarian Law Center has worked on documenting war crimes and human rights violations committed in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the victims and their stories. The organisation advocates...
August 23, 2022
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Are you passionate about finding ways to enhance media with technological innovation? Do you have an idea for a research paper on challenges and emerging trends in digital security? Are you working on developing innovative...
June 2, 2022
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The “FOUNDATION ALEXANDRA STEFANOPOULOU FOR THE PROMOTION OF GREEK SPIRIT” has the pleasure to announce the creation of the “LITERARY PRIZE ALEXANDRA STEFANOPOULOU”. The PRIZE will be awarded every second year and the PRIZE...