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More than 180 former employees and associates of the former RTV B92 have reacted to the ongoing attacks on Veran Matić with a letter of support, which we are publishing in its entirety.

"I will file a lawsuit against the author of the film about me. I suspect that the state is behind the signatory of that content," said Veran Matić, President of the Management Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, while appearing on the program 'Pravi ugao' on Radio-Television Vojvodina (RTV).

The Management Board of Radio-Television of Serbia has made a decision to appoint Maja Grčić as the General Director of Radio-Television of Serbia for a term of five years, officially announced RTS.

“I call on the President of Serbia to clearly distance himself from the campaign against Veran Matić. Otherwise, if anything happens to Veran Matić, we will hold the President of Serbia responsible,” emphasizes Pavol Salaj, director of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) bureau in Prague, highlighting that the organization is outraged by the video broadcast on several television channels and the defamatory statements that accompanied it.

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has announced the register of candidates for members of the selection committees for co-financing projects in the field of public information.

My support for Veran today is support for a simple, basic, yet critically endangered idea: that a journalist must not be prey, that an editor must not be a target, and that the safety of journalists is not a privilege, but the minimum requirement of any society that calls itself democratic.

The International Press Institute (IPI) from Vienna has condemned, as stated, the unacceptable smear campaign against their Media Freedom Hero in the world, Veran Matić, and called on those behind the recent attacks to immediately remove the "defamatory content."

The Municipality of Merošina has revoked its previously adopted decision to announce a competition for project co-financing of media content for the year 2026. The reason likely lies in the fact that the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has urged authorities not to announce competitions until the final list of candidates for the project evaluation committee members is published.

Attacks on media professionals reflect the general climate of polarization in Serbia and the high tensions caused by anti-government protests. The fact that only two attacks last year resulted in convictions is shocking. We have not seen such coordinated bot attacks in Europe before.