30. 10. 2010

Participation of ANEM stations in training “Reporting on peace operations”

Working on its stations' capacity building, ANEM endeavors to provide them with free trainings and education in different fields. In cooperation with NGO "Integrations NOW!" ("Integracije SADA"), which organized a seminar for journalists and media professionals on "Reporting on peace operations" with the support of the Media Office of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, ANEM enabled its stations' representatives to participate in this seminar held from October 28-30, 2010, in Nis.

The motivation for organizing the training lies in the fact that Yugoslavia had had a prominent role in international peacekeeping missions and our journalists had reported about them, but this trend has stopped since the nineties. Our journalists do not have the opportunity to report on such missions, do not have contacts with colleagues from abroad dealing with it, and they are insufficiently acquainted with the current security architecture. Serbia is, however, expected to become more active in this field.

The program included the topics such as: reporting on peace operations, reporting from war zones, reporting at risk, work under pressure, censorship, self-censorship, personal courage and profession etc. The seminar was led by Slobodan Lekic, expert from the American news agency The Associated Press, who has a great experience in the field, including reporting from Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia and East Timor. Local guest speakers shared their experience from peace missions with the participants.

Nine journalists from ANEM radio and TV stations participated in the seminar, namely from: Radio Kontakt Plus from Kosovska Mitrovica, Niska TV from Nis, RTV Kragujevac from Kragujevac, RTV Petica from Nis, RTV Caribrod from Dimitrovgrad, Radio Cacak from Cacak, Radio Ema from Bujanovac and Radion Em  from Knjazevac.