Korca journalists have no social insurance, contracts

KORȁ, Nov. 7 – Journalists in the southeastern city of Korca have no contracts with their employers and they are not paid social insurance, a seminar held Tuesday in the city showed. The seminar was sponsored and held from the Friedrich Ebert foundation, Albanian Center for Media Monitoring and the Union of Albanian Journalists. Low salaries, lack of social insurance and contracts with employers negatively affected the quality of the work of the journalists, participants said. “Low salaries do not give the possibility to journalists to supprot themselves and makes them vulnerable to outside pressure. Such shortcomings are a concerning problem to journalists throughout the country, and especially in capital Tirana where most of the media outlets are stationed.