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The Media and Democracy Programme of the European Institute for the
Media
will conduct a media monitoring of the parliamentary elections in
Serbia in
December 2000. This project is part of a larger programme on Media and
Democratic Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe which is carried
out
by the EIM with support and funding of the European Commission.
The media monitoring project in Serbia, which is carried out in
cooperation
with the Media Center and Institute for Strategic Media Research &
Marketing (SMMRI) in Belgrade, would include monitoring of political
and
special election programmes in the broadcast media and
election-related
material throughout the country.
The media monitoring will focus on the Serb media's compliance with
the
national regulations as well as intenationally accepted standards of
the
campaign coverage.
The quantitative analysis conducted by a team of local operators will
be
complemented by a series of interviews with politicians, public
figures and
media personalities conducted by an international expert, Mr Steve
Crawshaw, Independent, UK.
Director-General of the EIM, Professor Dr Jo Groebel (DE) will act as
Head
of the Mission. Project coordinator will be Dr Elena Chernyavska (UA).
The
findings of the mission will be made public at the press conference at
the
Media Center, Makedonska 5/II, 11000 Belgrade, FRY, at 21:00 hrs on
the 23d
of December, 2000.
The EIM epresses its sincere gratitude to the IREX ProMedia Serbia and
its
resident adviser, Mr Rich McLear, for assistance in monitoring and
sharing
the resources.
For more information, please contact,
in Belgrade Elena Chernyavska on + 381 (0)63 283 452
email: sma@EUnet.yu
in Dusseldorf, Ljudmila von Berg on +49 211 90 10 474
email: madp@eim.org
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