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The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) warns that the police detained the editor of Radio Dir from Ruma, Jovan Kerešić, at the police station for four hours during the visit of a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and former president Aleksandar Vučić to that location. Kerešić was held at the police station in Ruma at the request of the municipal public prosecutor's office. The editor of Radio Dir states that the police came to his house while he was having lunch. The officers showed him a warrant to immediately accompany them for questioning as a citizen. The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office from Ruma has not responded to ANEM's request for information regarding the request under which journalist Kerešić was interrogated.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and Civil Initiatives organized a meeting of civil society organizations, professional journalists, and lawyers to discuss the increased pressure and frequent violence against media workers, activists, observers, and citizens ahead of the parliamentary elections on October 25. In addition to ANEM members and representatives from Civil Initiatives, the meeting titled “Protecting the Elections” was attended by the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS), the SHARE Foundation, CRTA, the Trag Foundation, YUCOM, and others. 

On the eve of the official start of the election campaign, Novi Sad Television received a new studio, as well as a new program that promotes members of the ruling party. In fact, Novi Sad Television is among the media that received the largest amount of funding from the public budget.

Radio 021 is soon entering its fourth decade of existence. Since its founding in 1997, through the confiscation of transmitters and the fire that destroyed the radio's premises, to the current protests, legal proceedings, and struggles for economic sustainability, the editorial team has faced various forms of pressure.

The president of ANEM, Veran Matić, stated for N1 that in the past year and a half, there have been as many as 35 attacks on journalists in the so-called Ćacilend, and that the former president Aleksandar Vučić is primarily responsible for the violence in the country.

The company "Best Media Team," owned by the publishers of the tabloids Alo and Informer, has established a new subsidiary, Infolim LLC, in Prijepolje, which will engage in the production and broadcasting of television programming, according to data from the Business Registers Agency (APR). Based on the domain from the published contact email, which is office@tvlim.rs, the new media outlet that this company will launch could be called TV Lim.

On the occasion of World News Day, Webinfo analyzes the state of the media in Serbia – from the decline in public trust in news and the deterioration of media freedoms to the increasingly challenging economic situation of independent and local newsrooms.

In the first eight months of 2026, 99 cases related to the endangerment of journalists and other media workers were established, the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office announced at yesterday's meeting of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists (SRG). This is nearly 18 percent more than in the same period last year, which was, in terms of the number of cases, a record since the prosecution began keeping records. Of the 99 cases mentioned, only one resulted in a final conviction for the perpetrator of the criminal act against journalists.