STA director Bojan Veselinovič resigns

Ljubljana, 30 September - Bojan Veselinovič, the director of the STA, resigned on Thursday after turning down a draft public service agreement proposed by the Government Communications Office (UKOM) that he described as damaging for the agency. "I will never participate in the trampling of journalistic autonomy," he wrote in a statement for the press.

Ljubljana Bojan Veselinovič, the director the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), at a ceremony at which President Borut Pahor conferred the Order of Merit to the STA in June. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA File photo

Ljubljana
Bojan Veselinovič, the director the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), at a ceremony at which President Borut Pahor conferred the Order of Merit to the STA in June.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
File photo

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