We are excited to deliver and present to you the research report and outcomes collected and done within the scope of “Amendments in the journalist’s right to protect own source and provisions on slander and defamation in the Criminal Code” project financed by the USA Embassy.

The research was conducted nationwide among journalists working on social, political issues and in news. The purpose was to have realistic information on how the absence of legal regulation protecting the secret-source creates the conditions before the court and during the court sessions, how the requirements to reveal the source and provisions in Criminal code becoming “weapons” for high positioned bureaucracy to negatively influence the journalisms in implementation of their public “watch dog” duties and what are the further steps. The main purpose of the research is to identify the journalist’s form of dealing with secret-source, obstacles faced in protecting the secret source, to assess how Criminal code provisions on wrong accusations and attacks on reputation influencing the situation and to define what legislations are required to protect and free journalists from fear. The sample study covered 203 journalists in total.

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