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The new handbook from the Press Council and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) presents an analysis of the application of the new Code of Journalists in Serbia through the practice of the Complaints Commission. The publication includes specific examples of media reporting, including cases of defamation of individuals, publication of personal data, and dissemination of unverified information.

Nearly 70 percent of media workers in the Pčinja District are taking on additional jobs to secure a monthly income sufficient for living, according to a study on the standards and situation of colleagues conducted in February this year by the portal Slobodna reč. During the research, attempts were noted to discourage journalists from speaking publicly about working conditions and the state of local media. One-third of currently employed colleagues earn less than the alarming amount of 60,000 dinars.

IN Media is launching a fundraising campaign for legal costs incurred in SLAPP proceedings, and donors who contribute 1,000 dinars will receive books from the publishing house Samizdat.

When, in 2015, following the adoption of a set of media laws, the then President of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia, Vukašin Obradović, spoke about the pillars of project co-financing – public interest and strict control over the spending of funds – expectations were high. In theory, the system was supposed to ensure that public money went to the highest quality media projects, primarily investigative ones, while control mechanisms would guarantee the legality and purposefulness of the expenditures.

On April 11, we marked 27 years since the unpunished murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, a prominent Serbian journalist and publisher of Dnevni Telegraf and Evropljanin. As the Latin saying goes, "Fiat justitia ruat caelum" – "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." But what can we say when there is no justice, and the heavens have fallen upon everyone in Serbia? We live in a state of criminal anarchy and unprecedented violence.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) has established a database of the results of the competition for project co-financing of media content for the year 2026, as well as a registry that allows tracking which candidates for project evaluation committees have been selected at which levels and in how many committees.

On Easter, April 11, 1999, journalist and owner of the Daily Telegraph, Slavko Ćuruvija, was killed. The story of the time in which Slavko Ćuruvija lived and worked serves as a reminder to all who draw targets and to those who have targets drawn upon them—what happens when darkness prevails.

Representatives of journalistic associations, colleagues, and friends today laid wreaths and lit candles at Svetogorska 35 in Belgrade, at the site where journalist and owner of the newspaper "Dnevni Telegraf" and the weekly "Evropljanin," Slavko Ćuruvija, was murdered 27 years ago. They called for the protection of attacked journalists and media.

Written by: Predrag Simonović

The Service That Kills Free Speech Has anything changed? The pen cuts better than the sword. The acting prosecutor Milenko Mandić stated in his closing remarks: “Slavko Ćuruvija had to be removed so that the seed of rebellion he represented would not take root. So that other successful individuals would not, like Ćuruvija, refuse to submit to the system.” “Ćuruvija was anchored in the system, and his rebellion against the system came at the most dangerous moment for the regime, at a time of war danger, when it felt most vulnerable.”