Eurovision News Exchange editors meet in Podgorica (EBU)

News professionals from ten Southeastern European countries have agreed to devote more energy to news about Roma and other minority groups, at a Eurovision-led meeting in Podgorica.

Twenty Eurovision News Exchange (EVN) desk editors and journalists associated with ERNO, the Eurovision News Exchange’s Sarajevo-based South-East Europe office, met this week to seek ways to enhance the way they exchange TV news content.

The talks were also attended by Geneva-based Eurovision news editor Anne-Marie Lupu, Michael Wegener from the Eurovision News Committee and four members of a new Roma Task Force.

As well as the issue of minorities in the news, the participants discussed common challenges and ways to improve news content using new technologies and social media.

This ERNO gathering, the first in two years, was organized with the EBU Partnership Programme (EPP) under an EBU-EU project to support PSM in EU accession countries.

Established in November 2000, ERNO facilitates the exchange of 120 news items monthly, amounting to 1,400 per year.