LOW WAGES AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY – JOURNALISTS AND JOURNALISM IN SERBIA

Text topic: Studies

Text author: Сњежана Миливојевић

This paper discusses major findings of the research project “Profession at a Crossroads – Journalism at the Threshold of the Information Society” conducted by the Faculty of Political Sciences, Center for Media and Media Research, from July 2010 to June 2011. The aim of the project was to examine social, economic and technological qualities of the journalist community in Serbia and its capacity to respond to challenges the profession is faced with regarding global media changes and domestic transitional processes. Research results indicate that journalism in Serbia is in a state of limbo and caught between delayed transition and the information society, and that it very slowly mobilizes resources to respond to the forthcoming challenges.