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The OSCE Mission in Serbia awarded the Personality of the Year 2025 to Amela Bajrović, the editor-in-chief of the portal Free Media from Novi Pazar, at a ceremony held today in Belgrade.

Zorana Bojičić was elected on Friday as the new director of Radio Belgrade, and Nebojša Nikolić as the editor-in-chief of the First Program of this radio station, UNS has learned.

Due to a series of insults and offensive remarks made by BIRN journalist Radmila Marković, the professional service of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media has proposed initiating proceedings against TV Informer.

Journalist, analyst, and publicist Branislav Gulan, along with journalist and President of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) Veran Matić, are this year's recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS).

Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) has announced a new competition today for the selection of the general director of the organization, after none of the candidates received a sufficient number of votes in the first competition.

The announcement of resignations by four newly elected members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) has once again raised the question of whether the election of this body was conducted lawfully or if it is yet another political maneuver by the authorities to maintain control over the media regulator. Attorney and elected member of the REM Council Rodoljub Šabić claims that the election process grossly violated both the "letter and spirit of the law," while retired professor of Political Science Rade Veljanovski assesses that the threat of resignations is a poor decision that could enable the authorities to secure even absolute control over REM in the future.

The Board of Directors of Radio-Television of Serbia has made a decision to reissue the public competition for the appointment of the General Director of RTS, as none of the candidates who met the requirements of the competition received the necessary two-thirds majority of votes.

Journalists from local media in the digital environment are most threatened by members of political parties who are not in high positions. Party officials publicly label them as enemies, and the risk to digital security has significantly increased due to reporting on student protests, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Regional Information Agency JUGpress.

The city of Niš today announced the results of the competition for project co-financing of media content, which was announced for the distribution of the remaining 26,580,000 dinars, or the amount that was not awarded in the first competition of this year.