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Attack on the N1 Team: Discovery and Arrest of the Attacker After Two and a Half Months as a Damage Control Game?
After he was identified by journalists, the police had been searching for him until a few days ago. The attacker on the N1 team, Vladan Sretenović, is now in custody due to the risk of reoffending and potential flight. Now that the first step has been taken, what could be the outcome of this case?

Coalition for Media Freedom: Stop the Sinister Campaign Against Veran Matić
The Coalition for Media Freedom demands that the authorities urgently halt the intimidating and ominous media campaign being waged against Veran Matić, the Chairman of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and a member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists (SRG), which seriously jeopardizes his safety.
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Veran Matić: Hell is ahead of us.
On the day when the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) announced that the same owner had registered seven new portals, part of that network began coordinated attacks on Veran Matić, the President of the ANEM Board of Directors. Almost identical texts appeared on several newly established local portals, in which Matić is accused, among other things, of high treason.

NUNS: The campaign "Evil Era 2" is spilling over into coordinated attacks – the government must respond.
The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) strongly condemns the continuation of the organized campaign to discredit Veran Matić, which, following the broadcast of content by the Center for Social Stability titled "Evil Era 2" on national frequency television, is now intensifying through statements from the same organization and the coordinated dissemination of accusations in newly established local portals linked to the actors of this campaign.

KRIK received the proceedings in the lawsuit against the police officer accused in the Šarić case.
The Appellate Court in Belgrade has upheld the ruling that dismissed the lawsuit filed against KRIK by police officer Duško Mirković, who is accused of being a member of the drug lord Darko Šarić's group. Mirković filed the lawsuit claiming that the KRIK journalists violated his honor and reputation by mentioning him in a single sentence in their article.

The attacker on the N1 team has been apprehended after two and a half months, and detention has been proposed.
The police have located and detained V. S. for 48 hours due to an attack on the N1 team near the so-called Ćacilend, during which the suspect broke a camera and tripod. The prosecution has requested that the suspect be placed in custody.

Both Novi Pazar and Petrovac na Mlavi have announced media competitions, though the final list of candidates for the committees is still pending.
The competitions for project co-funding of media content for the year 2026 were announced today by Novi Pazar and Petrovac na Mlavi, although the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has not yet published the final list of candidates for the members of the project evaluation committees.

The list of candidates for the program director and chief editors of RTV has been published.
Radio-Television of Vojvodina (RTV) has announced the names of candidates who applied for the positions of program director and chief editors of the provincial public service, announced on December 22 of last year.

BIRN has published internal Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Media.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network - BIRN has published guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence on its portal titled "Internal Protocol for the Use of AI in the Editorial Office."
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