Belgrade - Having been shortlisted for three
consecutive years at Cannes, the Belgrade office scooped a Bronze Lion in the Use
of Media: Print category with the “Chronicles of Threats” campaign.
The award-winning campaign designed to
encourage public debate and define methods of effective protection of
journalists subjected to discrimination, aggression and violence, was a joint
effort by Saatchi & Saatchi Belgrade, the Commission for Investigation of
Murders of Journalists, and the OSCE Office for Media Freedom.
"To win a Cannes Lion among the
biggest global competition is quite a feat, and is bordered on the impossible for
a small office like we are. But the
philosophy of our agency that 'Nothing is Impossible' has now been confirmed in
the best way,'' said Veljko Golubovic, Executive Creative Director of Saatchi
& Saatchi Belgrade.
Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on
Media Freedom, also spoke about the significance of the award: "This is
wonderful news and a great tribute to the work of the Commission and the
inventive approach to solving this problem. This commission is one of the best
examples of cooperation between the government, journalists, and government agencies
in the region. The biggest prize will be the final resolution of all murders
and bringing to justice the perpetrators and those who gave the orders."
The campaign had a profound effect on both
the general and professional public. Fifteen
years after the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, the most
influential independent journalist reporting during the Milošević regime, his
assassins were arrested. “Chronicles of Threats” has also been instrumental in
solving a 20 year-old case involving the then 30-year old journalist Radoslava
Dada Vujasinović, who died in 1994.
Link for case
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS8JJ7SWelk