Media monitoring

The beginning of 2025 was marked by the absence of ethics in pro-government media reporting on student protests. The topic of this month's monitoring are the most blatant examples of such reporting, but also those other, positive examples that resulted in negative consequences.

In the December monitoring of the media scene, you can read how journalists and media associations gathered in the Coalition for Media Freedom and ANEM called on their colleagues to support the students who are protesting and fighting for democracy, justice and freedom of speech in Serbia.

Compared to the previous months of the current year, November is the month with the highest number of attacks on media workers. Attacks most often occurred during protests, demonstrations and other public gatherings. Although the police were present, they did not react. Media workers were treated as political opponents. 

In October, Dragoljub Simonović began serving the prison sentence he was sentenced to for setting fire to the house of Milan Jovanović, a journalist from the Žig Info portal. 

The September Monitoring of the media scene brings the key conclusions of the "Report of the European Commission on the progress of Serbia for the year 2024".

The August monitoring of the media scene continues monitoring the campaign that the tabloids are conducting against Tamara SkrozZa, the deputy editor-in-chief of the FoNet news agency. 

The monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for the month of July is dedicated to the cases of pressure to which the journalist Tamara Skrozza, deputy editor-in-chief of the news agency FoNet, and journalist Srđan Škoro and KTV television were exposed. 

Following the media scene in Serbia, June was marked by several indicative events.

The monitoring of the media scene for May brings an overview of key events concerning the threat to freedom of expression and the fight for it, the adoption of the regulations of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), the non-announcement of tenders at the level of local self-government units, the publication of the decision on the formation of commissions for tenders in the field of public information.