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For three projects related to children, health, and cultural landmarks in Belgrade, Informer received 10.5 million dinars (approximately 90,000 euros) from the Belgrade budget last year. We scrutinized the content published under these projects: not only were the articles that cost millions short, superficial, and trivial, but in some cases, journalists "lifted" sentences and paragraphs from other media or their own older articles, and for the project on cultural landmarks in Belgrade (3.5 million dinars), they even plagiarized texts from the official city website. They were no less lazy when it came to sourcing interviewees, as they simply used quotes from other media for some articles without citing the sources.

Former KRIK journalist Jelena Radivojević stated today at the trial involving KRIK, following a lawsuit from the judge of the Appellate Court in Belgrade, Dušanka Đorđević, that she believes this is a clear example of an attempt to intimidate journalists. “The judge and her husband requested that no more articles be written about them and that previous texts be deleted – not because anything is inaccurate, but because they claim we do not have the right to write about it, even though the judge is a public official,” Radivojević noted.

“How did the system collapse? I believe that this question best illustrates where Serbia stands today regarding the safety of journalists. What we are witnessing are not isolated incidents. This is not a temporary deterioration of the situation. It is a collapse of the mechanisms that are supposed to prevent attacks, protect journalists, investigate threats, and ensure accountability,” emphasized Tamara Filipović Stevanović, the General Secretary of the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS), at the two-day OSCE conference “Strengthening Journalism as a Public Good.” According to her, what we are witnessing are not isolated incidents and it is not a temporary deterioration of the situation. 

The National Working Group for the Fight Against SLAPP expresses serious concern regarding the ruling of the Second Basic Court in Belgrade, which has ordered the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation to pay a total of 1,035,000 dinars to Milan Radonjić, Ratko Romić, and Miroslav Kurak, after former members of the State Security filed a lawsuit against the Foundation due to a statement expressing dissatisfaction with the final acquittal ruling of the Appeals Court in the case of the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija.

The Second Basic Court in Belgrade has issued a ruling in the case against the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, stating that the Foundation is obliged to pay three former members of the State Security Service, Miroslav Kurak, Ratko Romić, and Milan Radonjić, 200,000 dinars each as compensation for damage to reputation and honor, as well as an additional 435,000 dinars for legal costs. In total, according to the first-instance ruling, the Foundation is required to pay 1,035,000 dinars.

Media freedom in Serbia continues to rapidly decline. Ahead of the early parliamentary elections, there is growing fear that President Aleksandar Vučić wants to further silence all independent media, writes the Dutch media outlet Trouw.

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications (MIT) confirmed today to the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) that as soon as it determined that the candidates for members of the commissions for the evaluation of media projects, Slavoljub Ristić and Biljana Ratković Njegovan, had become public officials, it blocked the possibility for them to be elected to the commissions.

In April 2026, the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) recorded a total of **18 incidents involving journalists and media workers**. Two actual attacks and six cases of death threats and threats to the physical safety of journalists were documented, along with six other threats to journalists. Additionally, two attacks on media and media organizations, as well as two other threats to the media, were also recorded. Although a lower number of threats and attacks on journalists was noted, this did not reduce the level of their vulnerability. Throughout April, a violent narrative against the media continued, and serious threats were directed at journalists and media outlets. A severe and very violent threat was recorded against a female journalist, containing elements of gender-based violence, as well as serious targeting of journalists and media by high public officials in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.