FORUM OF YOUNG JOURNALISTS

Campaign Against the New Law on Informing

The Forum of Young Journalists is an association of citizens existing around a year and already known in the public, mostly by initiating and carrying out the action against the new legal project on public informing. This association recruits its members on two grounds – professional and by the age limit (up to 35 years of age), and it started the campaigned that was joined by most of the media in Macedonia, printed and electronic.

Marijan Gjurovski, journalist in Makedonija Denes and Chairman of this association, told us that the journalists’ request is a withdrawal of the draft-law, because it is restrictive and limits the journalists’ rights, as well as the right of the public to have a timely and precise approach to all information.
- We think that we don’t need a new law, for the Constitution and the existing laws sufficiently regulate our line of work. We demand that the Government withdraws the draft-act, and if it doesn’t we will start a wider campaign, we will call the citizens to come out with their opinion, and if the legal procedure still goes on, we are prepared to strike – says Gjurovski.
Through the preparation of the draft-law neither the citizens, nor the journalists were asked to participate. They also avoided the citizens’ associations, and there was no public discussion on this draft-law.