Review article

The Importance of Media Selfregulation

Božo Novak ; doajen hrvatskog novinarstva

Abstract

If media self-regulation process had been normally developing in Croatia,
today’s topic would have had different purpose. However, being the way it is, media
self-regulation is now being carried out in much more difficult circumstances and with
greater consequences than in 2005 when ICEJ, Croatian Journalists’ Association and
CHC Media Council initiated the Declaration on Croatian Media Self-regulation. They
performed different activities for two years, participated on several round tables and
then finally the Declaration was accepted in November 2006. It was supported by most
of the media owners, professional and journalists’ associations, HRT (Croatian National
Television), non-governmental associations and representatives of judiciary, science,
Parliament and Croatian Government. It contained principles, media self-regulation
needs, techniques, structure and method of Media Council elections. A project plan of
necessary infrastructure for Council activities and a finance method were proposed as
well. However, from the Declaration acceptance date up till today, nothing has been
done to implement the ideas. As if certain factors in Croatian media system got afraid of
this system and concluded that their partial interests in media system can be realized
more easily without the proposed system of media self-regulation. Or the reason is
something else. Anyway, introduction of this system has been stopped and postponed
for some other times.

Keywords

media; journalists; Croatia; self-regulation; Media Council

Hrčak ID:

44550

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/44550

Publication date:

18.12.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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