MEDIA PLURALISM IN REPORTING ON EUROPEAN TOPICS

Panel discussion featuring, 20. 10. 2017, European Union House Ljubljana:

Tanja Fajon, M.Sc., current MEP, former EU correspondent in Brussels for Slovenia’s national broadcasting organization

Franc Bogovič, engineer in agronomy, former mayor, current MEP

Ivo Jevnikar, former chief editor, editorial board for information of Slovenian RTV in Trieste

Matevž Tomšič, PhD. Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies and the Faculty of Applied Social Studies

Peter Jančič, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Delo and present editor of the online newspaper ‘Spletni časopis'

Tino Mamić, president of the Association of Journalists of the Slovene Littoral

Situation in the field of media did not change significantly in 2015 as compared to the previous year. Criminal legislation, which directly affects the work of journalists, has improved in some areas. However, the journalists are still dissatisfied with poor performance of the Labour Inspection Services, in particular in areas of employment of journalists, poor employment opportunities and exploitation by media owners. Journalists in Slovenia have to deal with massive political pressure, and imbalance of our media remains the main issue in the Slovenian media space.

Statement of the Slovenian Association of Journalists and Commentators (ZNP) about the Abuse of Slovenian Prosecution and Courts against Slovenian Journalists

Only a few hours after the horrific Islamist massacre of journalists at the Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo on 7 January this year, an unknown person using the alias Zakladnik Matija wrote on Facebook that what had happened in Paris was just a child’s play compared to what Janshist turds (Janez Janša is the leader of the largest opposition party in Slovenia – SDS) working at Slovenian political weeklies Reporter and Demokracija would experience in the following weeks. He added that they should get ready, and that he would single handedly impale one of Demokracija’s journalists on a stake.
Journalists of the weekly Reporter immediately filed a report with the police over a suspicion of incitement of hatred, violence or intolerance, and over a threat.