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On national frequency televisions – Pink, B92, Prva, and Hepi, as well as the first two channels of Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) during 2025, a total of 5,047 violations related to the Advertising Law were recorded, according to reports from the Monitoring and Analysis Department of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).

At 11:52 AM on November 22, 2024 – exactly at the time when the canopy at the Novi Sad railway station killed 15 people three weeks earlier – a small number of citizens from Bečej gathered in the city center for the first "Stop, Serbia" rally. The silence of mourning under the cold November rain was abruptly interrupted by noise and insults from a group arriving from the direction of the Serbian Progressive Party offices.

The Coalition for Media Freedom demands that the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications and the Business Registers Agency urgently align the Media Register with the Law on Public Information and Media, which came into effect in the second half of 2023.

At the beginning of the trial against KRIK, Predrag Koluvija stated that the information claiming he is connected to the ruling party and the UDBA is inaccurate and offensive, as he comes from a Chetnik family. He mentioned that he has sued "everyone alive" for similar statements.

Radovan Seratlić, a journalist at TV Nova, is this year's recipient of the Regional Award for Television Journalism “Gordana Suša,” which is awarded by NUNS in collaboration with partner associations from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Police Department in Subotica has provided the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica with part of the information regarding the incident that occurred on November 11, 2025, when supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) prevented two journalists from taking photographs at the gathering in front of the SNS offices.

We are concerned about the violent nature of the threats, which seriously endanger journalists. We are particularly worried that the threats appear to be directly related to their work as journalists and their critical views on government policies, as stated in the report by Irene Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and Gina Romero, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Public Media Institution Radio-Television of Serbia, another application was opened for the competition for the appointment of the General Director of RTS. As announced, a total of six candidates met the competition requirements.

A journalist, Luka Pešić, who was filming in front of the fenced area of Pionirski Park in Belgrade, was approached by an unknown individual who demanded that he stop recording, stating that "they will find them all by name and surname and will learn everything about him, and there will be some consequences."