Journalists in Montenegro welcome the great jubilee, 150 years of Montenegrin journalism, in an unenviable position, according to the Association of Professional Journalists (DPNCG).
The year behind us, marked by the coronavirus epidemic, further worsened the status of public speakers.
"Starting with monitoring the events, the risks to their health and the impact on their otherwise difficult and stressful work. On the other hand, there is a great danger that due to the economic crisis, which is a consequence of the pandemic, a large number of colleagues will lose their jobs", says Mila Radulović, general secretary of the Society of Professional Journalists.
And the pains are old.
"Bad work status in most newsrooms, journalists are not regulated by work status, we have been talking about it for years and strive for a benefited seniority because we think we deserve it," she points out.
Media analyst and longtime journalist, Dragoljub Duško Vuković, when asked how he evaluates their work in the year behind us - he answers.
"How who and how who...There was good reporting, but there was also bad and below that even bad."
Vuković says that among them is the RTCG Public Service. This was especially reflected in the coverage of the coronavirus epidemic, which brought the whole world to a standstill.
"She did not allow any critical tones to enter that program. I think that the national public service should have opened up space for that type of opinion, and not for interested people to search social networks and possibly obscure websites to look for an alternative opinion," explains Vuković. .
Radulović announces that, among other things, he will send the new government an initiative to change the criminal legislation in the area of journalist protection, and Vuković hopes that the new government will not change the composition of the RTCG Council before proceeding with further changes to the Law on the National Public Broadcaster.
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