WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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During 2022, 28 attacks, threats and pressures on journalists were registered, while the police administration registered 21 attacks, ie as many as seven cases (or 25%) were not reported to the police, data from SafeJournalists.net.
Seventh Report, Indicators of the Media Freedom and Journalists' Security 2022 "Union of the SECC Department and Co-author of the Marijana Camović-Veličković report, show that the way of execution of the attack occurred during last year, so it was the first time A registered case extortion to the detriment of journalists.
A huge increase is in the number of registered verbal threats, ie harassment. Most cases from this category happened in protests or various protest rallies - she said.
The report also states that the number of physical attacks on journalists was increased and there were six of them.
Half of the total number refers to Jadranka Ćetković's correspondence, while the remaining three cases relate to public service correspondents - data reports.
It points out that the largest number of threats and attacks on media institutions and organizations referred to the attacks on the city television. There is an increased number of attacks and a total of five registered cases were increased by city television, day and radio antenna M.
Camović-Veličković reminded that during the previous year, the Criminal Code has entered into force for stricter penalties for attackers on journalists, and that five cases of attack are qualified by these changes.
Their adoption was represented by a kind of encouragement because it envisions more rigorous sanctions for attackers on the media employees - she said.
The SMCG researcher and the Bojana Copatar report said that the salaries of the media employees remain mainly at the level or below the average in the state.
As a special problem, it has pointed out that people are paid differently in private media, and that this is also observed in part of public broadcasters, and that a large number of media in Montenegro continue to owe taxes and contributions for employee earnings, and many of They are in the debt reprogram.
Working on black and paying parts of the earnings "on hand", overtime that is often not paid, censorship and self-censorship in part of the media, by selecting only desirable interlocutors and placing the "other, and the overload of journalists are also some of the problems .
She reminded that two representative unions in the field of media, SMC and the union informative, graphic and publishing activities have requested the owners of the media and their Union employers of Montenegro (UPCG) Negotiations on the new branch collective agreement for the media.
In the joint proposal, two unions asked for earnings to employees in the media for 15 to 20 percent and introduction of winter and jubilee awards for 10, 20 and 30 years of work in the same medium - she said.
REPORT OF THE LEVEL LEVEL AND SECURITY INDICATORS "The part of the regional survey conducted within the Network of Safe Journalists, according to the same methodology in the seven countries in the Western Balkans since 2016.
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