YUGOSLAVIA: THE YUGOSLAV MAIN OPPOSITION DAILY BORBA'S JOURNALISTS SUPPORT AN EDITORIAL BOARD DECISION NOT TO COOPERATE WITH THE NEW GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED CHIEF

Record ID: 646367

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: THE YUGOSLAV MAIN OPPOSITION DAILY BORBA'S JOURNALISTS SUPPORT AN EDITORIAL BOARD DECISION NOT TO COOPERATE WITH THE NEW GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED CHIEF
  • Date: 26th December 1994
  • Summary: SHOW: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (DECEMBER 26, 1994 (REUTERS TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV EXT. BORBA BUILDING/ CU BORBA SIGN (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. LV/SV INT. OF BUILDING/ BORBA MAST ON PAPER (2 SHOTS) 0.28 3. MCU EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GORDANA LOGAR SAYING "THE MAJORITY OF JOURNALISTS SUPPORTED EDITORIAL BOARD NOT TO COOPERATE WITH NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DRAGUTIN BRCIN APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT" (ENGLISH) 0.43 4. CU/SV/PAN JOURNALISTS TYPING FOR INDEPENDENT BORBA (3 SHOTS) 1.06 5. SV INDEPEDENT BORBA BEING SOLD IN FRONT OF BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 1.21 6. LV STATE NEWSTAND/SV/PAN BORBA NEWSPAPER PRINTED BY THE STATE OF SALE (4 SHOTS) 1.38 7. LV NEWSPAPER VENDOR 1.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA6MANLZ7ZTSFSPT2T9C72C33B3
  • Story Text: The editor-in-chief of the Yugoslav main opposition daily Borba, said that the majority of the newspaper's journalists supported an editorial board decision not to cooperate with the new government-appointed chief.

    Yugoslav authorities on Friday named Dragutin Brcin, federal information secretary, as Borba's acting editor-in-chief, after a Belgrade court ruled that the newspaper lacked a legal licence to publish.

    The authorities said they were acting in keeping with a court ruling on December 19 which rejected Borba's registration as a shareholder company, effectively putting it back under government control.

    About 50 Borba staff resisted efforts by federal Information Ministry officials to force them to leave, former editor-in-chief Gordana Logar said.

    Logar said the government had ordered distributors not to circulate a protest edition of Borba written by staff angered by the takeover, but the staff vowed to sell it themselves in Belgrade on Monday.

    A pirate edition they edited and printed on Sunday was snapped up in the city.

    Borba, founded in Zagreb in 1922, has heavily criticised the government led by Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic and fought a long legal battle defending the paper's status as a joint-stock company.


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