The Media Council for Self-Regulation expresses deep concern over the latest actions of the Special State Prosecutor’s Office and Supreme Court judges, who, by extending the pre-trial detention of former Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić, used the opportunity to criminalize a group of well-known Montenegrin journalists, intellectuals, and writers.

The Media Council for Self-Regulation recently translated and published the UNESCO study “Handbook for Journalism Educators – Reporting on Artificial Intelligence.” This publication is part of the UNESCO project “Building Trust in Media in Southeast Europe: Supporting Journalism as a Public Good,” supported by the European Union. The project aims to strengthen public trust in media and support quality journalism that serves the public interest.

The Board of the Media Self-Regulation Council held its second meeting of the year on June 28. A wide range of topics concerning the ongoing work of the organization were discussed.

PR Centar - Presentation of the study on the right to be forgotten in Montenegro

New study calling for the implementation of the right to be forgotten in Montenegro, through law and self-regulation mechanisms presented in Podgorica

Ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro partnered with representatives from media self-regulatory bodies in Montenegro to draft a Manual on effective media reporting during election campaigns with 22 concrete recommendations in line with OSCE and international standards, and the Code of Ethics for Montenegrin Journalists.

Following the presidential elections, several Montenegrin private media have been placing information on alleged irregularities, abuses and malversations related to the electoral process to the Montenegrin public. Unfortunately, instead of helping establish the whole truth via professional journalistic procedures, these media – the leading among them being daily ‘Dan’ – have deeply entered the zone of violating basic professional standards and Codex of Journalists, primarily through violating privacy by publishing identification numbers of citizens, failure to publish rebuttals and by entirely ignoring the basic journalistic rule to hear the other party as well.