Project "Local Media for a Better Society" Brings Together Journalists from Region

ZAGREB, 11 January, 2022 - A project called "Local media for a better society" is being launched by journalists' associations from Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with the aim of building trust through cross-border cooperation and joint work on building strong and professional local media.

The project involves the Croatian Journalists Union, the Slovenian Journalists Association, the BH Journalists Association, and the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia, with the support of the UK Embassy in Croatia.

The project, focusing on building trust and cooperation and strengthening the autonomy and freedom of local media outlets as the basic source of information for citizens in local communities, is designed to facilitate cooperation in strengthening local media and contributing to building trust and cooperation as fundamental values and mechanisms for dealing with the consequences of past conflicts in the region.

The project is also aimed at improving the sustainability and competitiveness of local media outlets, encouraging cross-border cooperation among umbrella journalists associations in the four countries, and establishing regular communication via a common Facebook group.

The Facebook group "Local media for a better society" will be used to exchange experience and communicate with colleagues from local media outlets as well as develop continuous long-term cooperation between local media outlets and the umbrella associations, and serve as a place where journalists from local media outlets will be able to obtain timely professional advice or assistance and develop joint projects.

A joint team of media content investigators from the four countries will be formed to collect data and make an analysis of the content of at least five local media outlets in each of the partner countries on the contribution of media to building peace, democracy and open society that respects human rights, diversity and cross-border cooperation.