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12. 08. 2011

ANALYSIS OF COMMENTS OF THE PUBLIC DEBATE ON DRAFT MEDIA STRATEGY PARTICIPANTS

The Draft Strategy for the development of the public information system in the Republic of Serbia until 2016 is the result of the Protocol on Cooperation signed between the Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society and media/journalists' associations, namely the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS), Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS), Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV), the Association of Media and Local Press. Based on the Protocol, signed on April 18, 2011, a Working Group of the Ministry was formed, consisting of seven members - three proposed by five associations - NUNS, UNS, ANEM, NDNV and Local Press, two by the Association of Media and two by the Ministry, whose task was to produce and submit the Draft Media Strategy proposal to the Ministry by June 1. The working group had submitted to the Ministry the text of the Draft within the set deadline, at which point the Minister decided to put it, without any changes made to the text, to a public debate. The Ministry organized 6 round tables within the public debate, which lasted from June 8 to July 15, 2011, in cities throughout Serbia, and in that period, the interested parties addressed their written comments and suggestions on the Draft Strategy to the Ministry. After the request of five media associations (ANEM, NUNS, UNS, NDNV and Local Press), on July 12, the Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society published all comments, suggestions and proposals of interested participants in the public debates (counting 31) on its website.

For ANEM purposes, Jelena Surculija, MA and coordinator of the working group of the Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society, conducted an analysis of the published comments of the participants in the public debate on the Draft Media Strategy, which would also serve to media coalition (ANEM, NUNS, UNS, NDNV and Local Press) in the future procedure of adoption of the Media Strategy.