The KoSSev news portal editor Tatjana Lazarevic received on Wednesday this year’s Dusan Bogavac journalism award for ethics and courage, the FoNet news agency reported.
Lazarevic dedicated the award to “beckons of freedom in Serbia and the world” and to the slain colleague Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi.
She said that the KoSSev website found its „space between the (Belgrade – Pristina dialogue) negotiators in Brussels and the region she reported from“ (Kosovo).
„We jumped into the empty information space between the negotiators in Brussels and those in whose name they are negotiating. What they call the Brussels process of normalization today is in deadlock. It is darker than ever,“ Lazarevic said.
The KoSSev portal was launched early in February 2014 and is edited by the Centre for Community Development in Kosovska Mitrovica.
It publishes news in Serbian and English.
The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS) said that the portal managed to maintain brave, honourable and independent journalism despite challenges, obstruction and pressure and has won the trust of the local community and the entire region.
Preuzimanje i objavljivanje tekstova sa portala KoSSev nije dozvoljeno bez navođenja izvora. Hvala na poštovanju etike novinarske profesije.
