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Although many authors define the media as a means of information, they have long since become a means of influencing and manipulating public opinion. Although they contain many positive elements, technological progress and the convergence of media have brought the possibility of fast and efficient spread of fake news and propaganda. Such influence of the media, unfortunately, is most often visible when reporting on crisis situations, wars, "reality" programs, black chronicles, or when reporting on negative social phenomena. Through manipulative, unverified, inaccurate reporting, except for the fact that they try to achieve greater viewership or readership, they create a negative impression of many events, which affects the behavior and awareness of the public. Wars are crisis situations and phenomena that leave negative effects on the population. This is also the case with the current war taking place on the territory of Ukraine. This paper will present the way of reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the examples of the Bosnian portals, as well as the research of international organizations on this topic. The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of objective and accurate information to the public in crisis situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze attitudes of members of the legal professions in Croatia and Serbia with regards to the judicial systems - the trust in judicial institutions and satisfaction with their performance. In the first part of the paper we present arguments of the cultural and institutional approach to explaining the foundations of trust in institutions, then define the characteristics of a "good" judiciary in the context of the democratic rule of law, and present the socio-political context of judicial reform in both countries over the last twenty years. In the second, empirical part of the paper we analyze the data collected through the online survey conducted among members of the legal professions in 2018 in Croatia and Serbia. The results from both countries show a low level of trust in judiciary and deep dissatisfaction with the functioning of judiciary on a list of dimensions. Our analysis confirms the link between (dis)trust in institutions and (dis)satisfaction with their work and thus also the assumptions of the institutional perspective on trust. We conclude that the obtained results point to an "internal" crisis of trust in judiciary in both countries, which accompanies the evident "external" crisis of the Serbian judiciary and the latent tensions in and around the Croatian judiciary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media reporting on terrorism has been intensified in the last decade due to a sharp increase in the activities of different terrorist organizations and groups. In order for journalists to understand the problem of terrorism, it is needed to define this phenomenon from the media aspect and explain the division of terrorist organizations as well as the basic causes of their existence and expansion. This paper has set forth the first attacks that can be regarded as terrorist ones reported by the media. Then, there have been determined the basic elements for the preparation of a journalist who is due to report on the given type of crisis situation. The basic elements include fundamental background knowledge and information that can affect the safety of the reporter and their media team, which suggests that professional knowledge and skills need to be theoretically formulated before visiting the scene of the crisis situation. There have been listed methodological advantages that a journalist of a local or a national broadcasting company has in a hypothetical situation when reporting on a terrorist attack. It has been proved that a journalist of local media is not necessarily inferior to larger media in their reporting. What is more, there are a number of advantages that should be skillfully used by journalists of local media in their reporting. An important element is psychological stability that is a key factor for timely, objective and ethically acceptable reporting on terrorist attacks as a form of highly risky crisis situations. According to experts' predictions, reporting on terrorist attacks can be intensified in the near future. For the given reasons, it is of key importance to have trained and prepared reporters who will be able to do a journalist's job in a safe and professionally acceptable manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]