Radio Televizija Slovenija log. Wikipedia/free to use and share.Recent decisions taken by some of the most influential public media organisations in Slovenia regarding the employment and dismissal of journalists have ignited debate within the country. The issues of needing to secure objective communication, pluralism, quality of information and also better working conditions for those working in the media have been raised.
It appears that in former socialist countries such as Slovenia, which was a part of former Yugoslavia until its independence in 1991, critical journalism is still under siege and often subjugated to political power. Journalists without fixed or long-term contracts seem to experience a particularly hard time (despite some of them having produced very important pieces of work).
Marko Milosavljević Professor of Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, notes that basic rules that regulate the Slovenian national broadcasting company (Act on Radio Television Slovenia “Zakon o RTVS”) have been broken during some of the decisions made by its top management.
