Mladi novinari u Vojvodini
Young Journalists in Vojvodina

Summary/Abstract: According to a recent study entitled, ”Professional Status of Young Journalists in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina”, the primary complaints of journalists thirty-years old and younger are overtime, small salaries, uneducated executives, censorship, and the influence of politics and advertisers on editorial policy. Most of the interviewees are not permanently employed, receiving some 200€ honoraria, and as they have mentioned, executives and editors do not sufficiently trust them, nor are they afforded adequate space to express themselves. While Serbia has enacted nominal steps toward democracy over the past ten years, and in the process has reduced the number of persecutions and arrests of journalists and punishments and cancellations of media, more than half of the young journalists surveyed have experienced restraints in freedom of speech while doing their job. Further, ten percent of those surveyed state that they are often censored. The basis of this examination emanates from research on the professional status of ”eternal freelancers”, conducted in 2009 by the Youth Development Fund (Razvojni fond za mlade – RFM) expert team, with the support from the Provincial Secretariat for Sport and Youth. In addition, a questionnaire has been filled out by over 50 young journalists from Vojvodina.

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