{"id":38243,"date":"2024-05-17T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/?p=38243"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:25:46","slug":"cins-wins-ethical-journalism-award-for-story-about-snss-call-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/cins-wins-ethical-journalism-award-for-story-about-snss-call-center\/","title":{"rendered":"CINS Wins Ethical Journalism Award for Story About SNS\u2019s Call Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethical Journalism Award, presented by ARTICLE19, has been awarded to CINS for the investigative story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/cins-inside-snss-call-center-hostess-agency-vote-buying-and-millions-in-cash\/\">&#8220;CINS Inside SNS\u2019s Call Center &#8211; Hostess Agency, Vote Buying, and Millions in Cash.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><p>The investigative story, published in November last year, uncovered a series of potential illegalities in the pre-election campaign of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), such as vote buying and illegal call center operations. The call center topic brought greater visibility to CINS&#8217;s investigative work.<\/p><p>Following the story&#8217;s publication, CINS also uncovered that SNS did not report expenses related to its operations to the Anti-Corruption Agency, and that the <em>Agency<\/em> decided not to initiate proceedings against them due to an alleged lack of conclusive evidence.<\/p><p>The investigation into the call center was also included in <strong>ODIHR\u2019s final report<\/strong> and served as an example of the issue of campaign financing by third parties, which remains unregulated.<\/p><p><strong>ARTICLE19<\/strong> works to promote the right to freedom of expression and access to information, believing in a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively participate in public life without fear of discrimination.<\/p><p>The award was presented as part of the regional <strong>#CheckItFirst<\/strong> campaign, which aims to highlight the role of truth, accuracy, independence, fairness, humanity, and responsibility in reporting.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CINS\u2019s trio of journalists \u2013 Ivana Milosavljevi\u0107, Teodora \u0106ur\u010di\u0107, and Vladimir Kosti\u0107 \u2013 are the winners of this year&#8217;s Ethical Journalism Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":38106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1586,1497],"tags":[1655,2231],"class_list":["post-38243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-other-recognitions","category-news","tag-awards","tag-sns-call-center","ciTrackContent"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CINS-nagrada-za-eticko-novinarstvo-Article-19.jpg","author_additional":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38245,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions\/38245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}