Klix.ba
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Type of site | Media |
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| Available in | Bosnian |
| Owner | InterSoftd.o.o.Sarajevo |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | October 2000 |
| Current status | active |
Klix.bais a Bosnianweb portal,the fourth most visitedwebsiteinBosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
It was founded in 2000 as aforum,calledSarajevo-x,and changed its name to the current one in 2012.[2]Every day it reports on information and news from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world. The author and owner of the Internet portal Klix is theweb developmentcompanyInterSoftd.o.o.fromSarajevo.
Surprise financial and administrativeinspectionsare used as a method topunish media outlets after critical reporting in Bosnia and Herzegovina.This was the case of the joint raid conducted on 29 December 2014 by theFederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH)andRepublika Srpska (RS)policesat the Sarajevo premises of the klix.ba website, after it had run a story about allegedcorruptionin theRS National Assembly.The police seized the website equipment and detained four journalists for questioning, whom they released after eight hours. They requested them to surrender the source of awiretapin whichRS Prime MinisterŽeljka Cvijanovićis caught saying to have bought two members of parliament to ensure a majority for her party in the Assembly.[3]: 36 The raid had been preceded by a police hearing in Banja Luka, in which Klix.ba journalists had already been required to surrender their sources. According to the journalists, the raid was meant as an intimidation message to all journalists in the country.[3][4]
On 10 March 2015 Klix.ba became the first media outlet from Bosnia and Herzegovina to have a verifiedFacebookpage.[5]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^Top Sites in Bosnia and HerzegovinaArchived6 January 2021 at theWayback Machine,alexa.com,Accessed 2021-04-02
- ^About,klix.ba
- ^ab"A Difficult Profession: Media Freedom Under Attack in the Western Balkans",Human Rights Watch,15 July 2015,ISBN978-1-6231-32576,p. 37
- ^Mirza Hota,'Police raid on Klix.ba',Archived18 July 2017 at theWayback Machinebosnienbloggen.wordpress.com,30 December 2014
- ^"Klix.ba prvi medij iz BiH koji ima verificiranu Facebook stranicu",klix.ba,10 March 2015, Accessed 2 April 2021
External links
[edit]- Official website
(in Bosnian)