News in English     | 30.01.2018. 12:43 |

Cormack: Free media are the absolute foundation of democracy (VIDEO)

FENA Hazim Aljović

SARAJEVO, January 30 (FENA) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a joint Balkan Media Assistance Program, focusing on online media development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia.

The United States Ambassador to BiH Maureen Cormack at today’s presentation of the Program in Sarajevo said that the free media were the absolute foundation of democracy.

“In the entire region, not just in BiH, the media are under pressure from various sources, and this is why we have designed this as a regional program,” Ms. Cormack said.

She stressed that the goal was to help independent media use new technologies, enter into partnerships for advertising and propaganda, and to work on developing the content that they broadcast.

“We want to help investigative journalism as their role in society is special, because they report on what corrupt citizens are doing,” Ms. Cormack said.

Chairman of the BiH Press Council Steering Board and director of the magazine “Start BiH” Dario Novalić said he was pleased that the USAID has launched two programs in two months, one for BiH and the other for the region.

“They have allowed us to develop by ourselves for a long time. This was not a problem for the media, however, for the economy and politics, this was an opportunity. Some media went down, some had to join, publicly or secretly, the political parties,” Mr. Novalić said.

He is certain that in the coming years, with the help of the international community, the media will succeed in developing.

Director and one of the founders of the Montenegrin “Vijesti”, Željko Ivanović, considers USAID’s Balkan Media Assistance Program significant in view of the situation prevailing in the market in the region, as well as the importance of digital media.

The USAID’s program in the five Balkan states will last three years and is worth seven million dollars.

Watch http://fena.ba/video/1402/

Download https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ToVHSUVSsFFWYv2nrv1Yov1TlPmRBBXg?usp=sharing

(FENA)
Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/vhosts/fena.ba/httpdocs/post-new.php on line 215

Vezane vijesti

Governor Selimović meets with the delegation of USAID Mission in BiH

USAID recognizes new partners in local communities for cooperation with diaspora

USAID gathers representatives of 35 companies at a workshop on family business transition

Promo

M:tel: Savršena kombinacija – Huawei telefon i pametni sat s popustom

M:tel: Stiglo nam je Proljeće!

Predstava 'Kako sam se nadala dobro se nisam udala' u BKC Sarajevo