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For many decades during the 20th century, Serbia was a part of socialist Yugoslavia. After the war and the tragic, war-related consequences to the political, social and cultural ties between former republics, Serbia entered a transitional process that has still not ended. However, there are many differences between the socialist media environment and today’s media system. In Yugoslavia, there was a strong relationship between the nature of news production and state control. The domination of the public media service was evident. Understanding the reasons behind the socialist journalistic practice is important to determine its further transformation into the post-socialist, commercial, digital or revitalized state media system. In the sense of describing the social framework, the term socialist in recent literature can often refer to a onedimensional perspective. On the other hand, the term post-socialist is characterized by more dispersed spaces, complexity and a range of identities. Looking into everyday life, social order is morphing into new empirical evidence that requires wider reflection. However, female journalism is an underdeveloped field of research in Serbia. Another largely unexplored field of study is the lack of comparing the experience of elderly women journalists from the socialist media environment and the experience of younger women employed in today’s media organizations. Our research intends to fill the gap in expert literature with a critical insight into female journalism, which provides a nexus for the detailed examination of gendered news production, the commercialization process, power and control. Building on critical media studies and qualitative methodology, our research draws attention to the role of female journalistic experience in socialism and post-socialism. Using the methods of indepth interview and focus group, we will explore to what extent female journalists occupied significant positions in newsrooms then and now in Serbia.
Keywords: 5. The voice of female journalists from Serbia – the way bravery is tempered with actions and experiences ; Due to the technological, social and political changes, working in media organizations has become very complex and complicated for women who still make up the largest group of journalists in most countries. ; female journalists ; gender ; journalism ; media ; media transition ; post-socialism ; Serbia ; socialism ; Transformation of media has been hit by chaotic challenge of privatization ; Yugoslavia
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