Slovenia is a small and scenic Alpine nation just South of Austria in the North of what was once Yugoslavia. Many of its journalists would have learnt their trade while Communism ruled there. A whine about the place from the NYT below:
"As a young journalist in the late 1980s, Janez Jansa, now prime minister, played a critical role in spurring Slovenia's pro-democracy movement after he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for opposing the Communist government and writing articles attacking the former Yugoslav Army.
In an extraordinary inversion of the past, his opponents now accuse him of trying to censor the news media whose freedom he fought to uphold. A recent report by Freedom House, a pro-democracy watchdog group based in New York, said that the Slovene news media "faced indirect political and economic pressure from the government and business interests" and that government officials sometimes treated journalists as if they were "the political opposition." [Probably because they are!] ....
Mr. Jansa, asked last week whether he was stifling the media, was emphatic. If the main measure of press freedom "is the possibility to criticize the government, then we have 200 percent freedom," he said. The government cited several independent studies, including a 2007 report by Reporters Without Borders that ranked Slovenia above France, Spain, Italy, Australia and the United States in press freedom....
Delo journalists say critical reporting of government policies has become increasingly difficult. As evidence, they point to Mr. Jancic's decision to recall the Delo correspondent in Vienna to Ljubljana in April after he published stories critical of government policy toward the Slovene minority in Austria. The correspondent in Zagreb, Croatia, who had criticized the government for a police buildup at Slovenia's disputed border with Croatia, was also recalled.
Mr. Jancic, who has since been replaced as editor, said during an interview that the correspondents had been recalled because they were injecting their opinions into stories. He said that as editor, he never came under direct government pressure.
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