Source: Danas
The OSCE seminar for the journalists from the towns in Sandzak
Novi Pazar - How to use the right to free access to information in research journalism - was the title of the seminar which last weekend joined together some twenty journalists from the local media and the reporters of Belgrade media from Novi Pazar, Raska, Tutin, Sjenica and Nova Varos. The basis for the discussion, organised by the OSCE Mission in Serbia, was the Law on Free Access to Information. While talking about the importance of the right of access to information for journalists, Rodoljub Sabic, the Commissioner for the information of public importance stated that our journalists chronically lack documented information.The topic of the seminar was observed through several segments, from providing answers to the question if the journalists use this right sufficiently, through the significance of this law in research journalism, the procedure stipulated by the Law, the way of using the right, special provisions for the media, secrecy of data backed-up by real cases from the practice, setting up a strategic case, discrimination of journalists, to asking concrete questions and their setting up into a legal form. Other than Commissioner Sabic, we could also hear from Dragana Nikolic-Solomon, Head of the Media Department of the OSCE Mission in Serbia, and Nevena Ruzic from the same Department, as well as from Miroslav Jankovic from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Belgrade.
