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The Stability Pact Media Task Force works to provide assistance
to the development of free, independent, professional and diverse
media in South Eastern Europe. Being a collaborative effort, the
Media Task Force combines all relevant actors in the field of media
assistance: donor countries, international (non-governmental) organizations
as well as recipient countries, represented by the chairmen of National
Working Groups, which operate under the auspices of the Media Task
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Premiere
in Sarajevo
on April 3rd, 2005
Videoletters
Through a series of television
programmes, made with support from the Media Task Force, bonds between
former friends, colleagues and neighbours in the Balkans are being rebuilt.
The project Videoletters reconnects people who were separated during
the war, through the exchange of emotional Videoletters
that seek to renew contact and restore
trust.
The
series will be aired simultaneously by the national broadcasters in
the republics of Former Yugoslavia from 7 April 2005 onwards, weekly
at 9pm.
The
Dutch film makers have designed Videoletters as a reconciliation
and conflict resolution tool and have launched an interactive website
where people can search for lost friends and load their own Videoletters;
[linked
to the Videoletters website on 23
February 2005]
The
Media Task Force: supporting legislation, production and training
The
development of independent and professional media has been one of the
six core objectives of the Stability Pact since December 2002. Through
the Media Task Force, the Stability Pact provides a forum of coordination
between all key actors active in the democratisation of South East Europe’s
media systems.
Within
the Media Task Force, the executive secretary and a network of nine National
Working Groups determine priorities and coordinate action with the European
Commission, the Council of Europe, various donor governments, as well
as the main international NGOs working in media development. The Task
Force also coordinates action with the SEE Ministries of Foreign Affairs.
Since
1999, 35 projects have received funding as a direct result of cooperation
under the MTF umbrella. Examples include legal assistance for a new broadcasting
law in FYR Macedonia; the production of regionally broadcast television
programmes and documentaries about reconciliation and corruption; support
to a regional journalism university in Sarajevo, and local journalism
courses on reporting about organised crime.
Read
more about the Media Task Force
Key Documents
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