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Marginalized topic, increasingly exploited for sensationalism and without including children as the most important actors in journalistic stories. This could be a brief summary of the findings from the research "Media Image of Children in Serbia 2025," which was presented today by the Center for Professionalization of Media and Media Literacy (CEPROM).

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) platform today once again expresses concern over the undemocratic process by which the National Assembly conducted the latest election of members to the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), a key media regulator in Serbia.

In Novi Sad last night, several journalists were once again attacked. The president of the Management Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), Veran Matić, told Mašina that all these attacks are obviously part of state policy, or rather an order to take action against journalists, as journalists are “the ones who present to the public everything that is happening.”

"From this perspective, it is completely clear that we will not have a new composition of the REM Council in the foreseeable future," stated Saša Mirković, a representative of ANEM and a previous candidate for a member of the REM Council in the first process, to Mašina.

The Higher Court in Šabac yesterday acquitted Milan Filipović, who had originally been convicted for posting wanted notices featuring the images of three individuals, including journalist Isidora Kovačević. She emphasized to Nova that today, four years later, an official document allows anyone to harass another person and mark them with a target on their forehead without facing any consequences.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) has published a document titled "Official Note and Decision on Dismissal: The Boundary Between Legality and Abuse," in which NUNS lawyers Marija Babić and Rade Đurić analyzed the actions of prosecutors in cases where it is decided not to initiate criminal proceedings ex officio.

Four out of eight members of the REM Council, who were elected this week in the Assembly of Serbia, have submitted their resignations. We are publishing the statement in its entirety:

Today, the Balkan Alliance for Local Media (BALM) was officially launched, a unique regional network that currently brings together 27 independent local, minority, and community media from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo.

The Committee for Culture and Information of the National Assembly of Serbia today adopted a Decision to initiate a renewed procedure for proposing a candidate for a member of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) at the proposal of the authorized proposer, the national councils of national minorities, after no candidate in that category received a majority of votes in Parliament for election and thus the ninth member of that body was not elected.