The World Press Freedom Day has been marked today by about twenty media workers in front of the MISSING art installation, in front of the Culture Center Gracanica, reports KIM radio.

The media workers carried transcripts "Find Killers of Journalists", "Arrest kidnapers of journalists", "Impunity is killing freedom of expression", but also photographs of murdered and abducted media workers in the period from 1998 to 2005.

The media in Kosovo are faced with politicization, non-implementation of laws by institutions and intimidation of journalists, with an increase in self-censorship, according to the association of journalists.

TV Most based in Zvecan two days ago published a news with inappropriate headline, related to the graffiti written on the wall of school, attended by Serbian pupils, in the village of Ugljare, nearby Gracanica municipality, KoSSev portal reported today.

KoSSev also reported the news has been removed from the TV website.

TV Most, Editor-in-Chief, Ljiljana Jankovic assessed the headline as “utterly inappropriate” and as “editorial failure” adding “it was a violation of a codex and something that we do not do.”

Some media owners are using their outlets for political ends, Kosovo’s public broadcaster has been subjected to political interference, while working conditions for journalists remain poor, a new report says.

Freedom of the media in Kosovo is increasingly being threatened by political pressures which include direct interference by politicians, according to a study entitled ‘Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety’ which was published on Monday by the Association of Journalists of Kosovo.

On February 27, the Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE held a high-level conference on Freedom of the Media in the Western Balkans, at Hofburg in Vienna.

The following is the address at the conference of Veran Matic, head of Serbia’s Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists and news editor-in-chief for B92:

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo has presented two journalist associations in Kosovo with its Safety Guide manual.

The Association of Journalists of Kosovo and the Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo also received desktop computers, laptops, and printers.

The ceremony was attended by the presidents of the two associations, Shkelqim Hysenaj and Budmir Nicic, and the head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo's media section, Dane Koruga.

The Association of the Journalists of Kosovo protested today in front of the government building, with the motto “Speak up, do not be afraid.”