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Journalist Nadežda Gaće Passes Away
After a long and severe illness, renowned Yugoslav and Serbian journalist Nadežda Gaće passed away last night. She was the founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly Novi magazin, one of the founders of the Press Council, and the Chair of its Managing Board from 2013 to 2014.
Nadežda Gaće was born in 1950 in Inđija. She completed classical high school in Split and studied Yugoslav literature and the Serbian language at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. She had been engaged in journalism since 1974, beginning her career at Radio Television Belgrade (RTB), where she advanced to the position of editor and commentator.
Following the infamous Eighth Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia in 1987, Gaće was suspended from her role as an editor-commentator at RTB. She subsequently resigned and continued her journalism career at Jutel and the Ljubljana-based newspaper Delo. After Jutel was shut down and the breakup of Yugoslavia, she worked for Borba, Naša Borba, and Danas. In 2011, she founded the publishing company Agenda2020, along with the weekly Novi magazin and its accompanying news portal.
She served two terms as president of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS) from 2006 to 2010.
Beyond leaving an indelible mark on the media landscape, Nadežda Gaće was the author of several notable books. As a tireless advocate for human rights, she was also among the founders of several esteemed non-governmental organizations.
The publication “Journalists’ Codes in Serbia from 1965 to 2025” has been released
This year marks 60 years since the adoption of the first ethical code of journalists in this region. The first such document, the “Code of Yugoslav Journalism,” was adopted in late January 1965 at the assembly of the Journalists’ Association of Yugoslavia in Mostar. Ethical and professional standards until then had been exclusively regulated through the rules of journalists’ associations, with the first such recommendations contained in the goals of the Serbian Journalists’ Society in 1881.
Over the past six decades, these “rules” for journalists have been amended and supplemented several times, both locally and globally, in line with new trends and challenges faced by media professionals. This has been particularly pronounced in the last decade, as journalism globally and consistently faces the development of new technologies, which change the daily routines of editorial staff year by year, create new ethical dilemmas in reporting, and introduce previously unknown concepts in the media sector.
The goal of the publication “Journalists’ Codes in Serbia, from 1965 to 2025,” edited by Bojan Cvejić, is to archive in one place all written ethical codes of journalists that have been valid in Serbia throughout history. This aims to serve all journalists and researchers engaged in the theory and history of journalism and media ethics for a better understanding of the historical context.
You can view the publication at this LINK.
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