Peter Jančič Explained

Peter Jančič is a Slovenian publicist, journalist, editor, political analyst[1] and author. He has served as an editor-in-chief of daily Delo (2006-2007), Spletni časopis (2017-2020) and Siol news website (2020-).

Jančič graduated with a thesis on journalistic ethics and honor code at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana in 1991.[2]

He published scholarly articles on journalistic ethics in Teorija in praksa[3] [4] journal, and was one of the key contributors in the development of the code of ethics for the Slovenian Journalists Association.[5] [6] The code still applies.[7]

Before 2017, Peter Jančič was a journalist and domestic politics editor[8] at daily newspaper Večer for 15 years, and at daily Delo for 10 years.[9] In 2006 and 2007, he was the editor-in-chief of Delo.[10] He wrote that when he served as the editor in chielf of Delo, "the newspaper sold more copies every day than Delo, Dnevnik and Večer combined sell today." In 2017, he was fired from Delo when he disagreed with what he called Delo's "political propaganda".[11]

In 2017, Jančič published a book titled Fake News (Lažne novice).[12] The book describes relations between Slovenian politics and media, who controls and influences the media and why they report the way they do.[13] [14] The book triggered a fierce debate among public figures.[15] [16] [17]

For several years he served as a member of Council and the Program Council of the Radio-Television of Slovenia. Jančič was one of the founders and the first president of the Association of Journalists and Publicists, which is one of the two major associations of journalists in Slovenia.[18]

In 2017, he founded the Freedom of Expression Foundation[19] and the political website[20] Online Newspaper (Spletni časopis) which he created and edited until 2020.[21] [22]

In April 2020, he became the editor-in-chief of Siol, one of the leading Slovenian news websites, and suspended to work for the Online Newspaper.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Welle (www.dw.com) . Deutsche . Slovenia to hold early parliamentary election DW 14.04.2018 . 2022-05-04 . DW.COM . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Maribor . IZUM-Institut informacijskih znanosti . Novinarska etika in kodeksi časti : diplomska naloga : Nagrada Prešernovega sklada :: COBISS+ . 2022-05-02 . plus.cobiss.net . sl.
  3. Web site: dLib.si - Kodeksi novinarske etike . 2022-05-02 . www.dlib.si.
  4. Kovačič . Melita Poler . 2015-12-11 . Razvoj globalne novinarske etike: raznolike tradicije, univerzalen etični kodeks? . Javnost - the Public . 22 . sup1 . S41–S52 . 10.1080/13183222.2015.1129206 . 147243255 . 1318-3222.
  5. Book: Anžlovar, Tadeja . Diplomsko delo.
  6. Jančič . Peter . 2002 . Kako je nastal novi kodeks novinarske etike? . Medijska preža . 2002.
  7. Web site: Kodeks . 2022-05-02 . Društvo novinarjev Slovenije . sl-SI.
  8. Web site: 2017-11-24 . Peter Jančič, Silvester Šurla in Tino Mamić o "fake news" in slovenskih medijih . 2022-05-04 . Domovina . sl-SI.
  9. Web site: 2017-02-05 . O časopisu . 2022-05-02 . Spletni časopis . sl-SI.
  10. News: Bilefsky . Dan . 2008-01-21 . Slovenia Chief Is Accused of Censorship . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-05-04 . 0362-4331.
  11. Web site: Peter Jančič: Delo je bilo zlorabljeno za politično propagando . 2022-05-04 . Revija Reporter.
  12. Book: Jančič, Peter . Fake News: Lažne novice . Družina . 2017.
  13. News: Leiler . Ženja . Novinarji pišemo o vseh in vsem, redko o sebi . 14 . Delo. - ISSN 0350-7521 (Leto 59, št. 281, 5 December 2017, str. 14).
  14. News: Nežmah . Bernard . 1 December 2017 . Book review: Peter Jančič: Fake News. . 64 . Mladina. - ISSN 0350-9346.
  15. Web site: Knjige: Peter Jančič: »Fake news« . 2022-05-04 . Mladina.si.
  16. Web site: Odgovor Jureta Apiha Bernardu Nežmahu . 2022-05-04 . Mladina.si.
  17. Web site: Peter Jančič: »Fake news« – Lažnive novice . 2022-05-04 . Mladina.si.
  18. Web site: Ro./STA . Š . 2009-06-08 . Peter Jančič odstopil zaradi izjave o Ultri . 2022-05-04 . old.delo.si . sl-si.
  19. Web site: Zavod za svobodo izražanja Ljubljana - Bizi . 2022-05-02 . www.bizi.si.
  20. News: 2017-10-22 . Slovenian President Pahor fails to win majority, faces runoff . en . Reuters . 2022-05-04.
  21. Web site: Kako posluje Telekomova medijska luknja, ki je požrla skoraj ves dobiček skupine - www.finance.si . 2022-05-02 . www.finance.si.
  22. Web site: 2020-04-04 . Jančič prevzema državni Siol, glasovalo malo novinarjev . 2022-05-03 . www.vecer.com . sl-si.