In the Matica Croatia held the electoral Assembly of the Croatian journalist and publicist – HNIP at which for the first President of the HNIP was chosen to Siniša K
The Vice-President is Katja Kušec, Secretary of the Hrvoje Juvančić, a selected member of the Secretariat, Marco J, President of the Ethics Forum, mr. Jure Vujic, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Ivan B, members of the Supervisory Board, Ivan H and Vedran Coward and the members of the Ethics Forum Carolina V Krišto, Gerardo Lukic, Anna Miller, Diana Čović, Ivo Kujundzic, Krešimir Čokolić, Jozo Barišić, Ljiljana Vinković, Miro Brankovic, Davorka Gašparović, Robert Valdec and Vladimir Milinović. The mandate of elected shall be four years.
In program of most of the speeches of the candidates could be heard clear desire and intention to return the reputation and credibility of the journalistic profession in Croatia, that the existing legal frameworks and to adapt to the free reporting, to devote special attention to the legal protection of journalists, but also to the waist loose ideological distortions.
"Among the priorities we will be organizing free legal help to journalists who are due to their professional performance existentially threatened degraded or professionally," he said, addressing the members of the electoral Assembly of the President of the HNIP-Siniša K, stressing that it will deal with the issues of cehovskim HNIP, not jadnobojnim to political activism.
The initiative for the establishment of the Association of HNIP activated four months ago and already brings together 45 of prominent journalist and publicist. The intention is to increase the Association's membership, so it is referred to the public call for all other interested journalists, publicistima and media employees to join and actively participate in the work of the HNIP-a, the development of the profession and to encourage pluralism.