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Radio Justice is one of three programs directed by the Justice Report Agency, under the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Radio Justice is one component of the organization’s aims to increase the understanding of and support for the work of war crimes trials in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
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History
Radio Justice is a sub-program of BIRN BiH’s Justice Series Programme. Justice Series, launched in 2005, produces daily courtside reports and investigative reports and analyses of local and regional transitional justice. In 2007 Justice Series expanded to radio, due to the high demand for reportage on war crimes trials in audio format.
Initially, BIRN BiH produced daily audio reports about war crimes trials held before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since then, the scope of Radio Justice has expanded. In 2010 the organization started to produce a weekly magazine about the most important trials conducted before the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of BiH. In 2011, Radio Justice expanded its reporting to the war crimes trials held before the Cantonal and District courts of BiH in order to support local courts.
Programming
Radio Justice's three different programs are distributed to over 140 radio stations in BiH. They include daily audio reports, a Justice Report Weekly Magazine, and a monthly show entitled: Local Justice Under Spotlight.
The Weekly Magazine focuses exclusively on what it considers to be the most important trials before the Court of BiH today. Each trial discussed in the magazine is selected in accordance to the level of public interest and available quality of content. The magazine, which airs every Friday, consists of four trial reporting segments and a central topic titled 'In Focus'.
'Local Justice Under Spotlight' is a 10-minute monthly radio edition of BIRN BiH realized in cooperation with the local contributor journalists. Each episode of 'Local Justice Under Spotlight' consists of up to 10 high quality reports from trials in different local Cantonal and District courts in BiH, as well as an 'In Focus' segment. It is aired on the first Monday of every month.
All radio content is available on BIRN BiH’s signature web site 'Justice Report', the Sound Cloud social network, and is also aired by the vast number of local radio outlets in the country.
Achievements
Radio outlets in BiH rely on BIRN BiH radio editions since due to the lack of human and financial resources, as well as specialised expertise on transitional justice, they are not able to put correspondents in war crime chambers in BiH or in the Hague. Thus BIRN BiH holds an important position in bringing the work of the judiciary of BiH and especially the ICTY, closer to the audience.
All of the radio editions are done in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and are exclusively for the domestic and diaspora based audience. They are also available for download and/or streaming on the organization’s website.
The Radio Justice team produces approximately 650 daily radio reports, over 80 weekly radio magazines, and 12 monthly specials each year. So far over 2,500 radio reports have been aired on various stations within the country and region.