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The mental health of journalists this year has been seriously compromised due to pressures, insecure working conditions, and constant exposure to stress, experts interviewed by FoNet in the series Reflektor have stated, recommending seeking help from professionals and engaging in psychotherapy as a solution.

The company Pink Media Group, owned by Željko Mitrović, has sold "Rock Radio" to Alo Media System, which publishes, among other things, the tabloid "Alo," according to a decision by the Business Registers Agency dated December 25 of this year. Employees at the radio station have announced that they have resigned.

On the wings of the student protest, another change has arrived. The blockade of INFO testifies to the power of new media, the student protest, and new approaches to information dissemination that have reshaped the media landscape in a way that was unimaginable before the students. They are followed by almost 100,000 people on social networks and have more than 40 million views.

Jelenko Pijevac, the suspect who threatened Insider journalist Nataša Mijušković on November 2, was interrogated at the prosecutor's office, after which a request was made to the court to impose detention on him, the First Basic Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade announced.

Violence must not be a part of the profession. When female journalists are silenced by fear, the public interest suffers.

The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) recorded 261 cases of threats against journalists in 2025, which is 150 cases more than last year, when a total of 111 cases were reported.

The Coalition for Media Freedom, consisting of the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia, the Association of Media, the Local Press Association, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, the Independent Journalists' Society of Serbia, the Association of Online Media, and the NGO KUM Independence, warns that the rhetoric involving the targeting of media from the highest levels of government is increasingly being reflected in local communities, thereby directly jeopardizing the safety of local journalists.

Journalist of Danas, Uglješa Bokić, was interrogated today at the police station in the Novi Naselje area of Novi Sad at the request of the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office. In his statement to the police, he did not wish to disclose his sources. The prosecutor ordered the interrogation due to the publication of portions of a police official report on the Danas portal, related to the arrest of Novi Sad lawyer Nemanja Aleksić in early April of this year.