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Written by: Veran Matić

One of my colleagues, who is also the editor-in-chief of the portal he manages – which I believe does not even generate enough revenue for salaries – was among the most targeted during last year while reporting from the protests. He has the required equipment – both a helmet and protective gear, and possibly some form of body armor – but still left the following message on the X network:

More than one-third of surveyed journalists in Serbia, specifically 37.1 percent, have been diagnosed with a mental disorder or experience mental difficulties, which is more than double the percentage of mental disorders in the general population, estimated at around 15 percent. These findings are presented in the "Analysis of Journalists' Mental Health," prepared by Jovana Gligorijević, Tamara Džamonja Ignjatović, Branko Čečen, Veran Matić, and Miroslav Janković with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.

In the last eleven years, the municipality of Novi Bečej has allocated almost 50 million dinars of public funds for media projects (49,630,000 dinars from 2015 to 2025).

As of the beginning of 2026, a total of 52 new media outlets have been officially registered in Serbia, according to data from the Media Register of the Business Registers Agency (APR). Currently, the Media Register lists 2,312 public media outlets.

On March 12, 2003, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated in front of the Serbian Government building with two gunshots. The bullet that killed him was also a metaphor – the end of a brief, ambivalent, yet real space of freedom that opened up after the fall of Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000. For journalists and the media, that space was not perfect. But it was real.

The subsidiary of the tabloid publishers Alo and Informer, "Best Media Team," has acquired the eighth and ninth local media outlets since the beginning of this year. According to the Business Registers Agency (APR), this company now also owns RTV Golija from Ivanjica and Televizija Kikinda as of yesterday.

The Basic Court in Dimitrovgrad, in its first-instance (non-enforceable) judgment, ruled that the president of the municipality of Dimitrovgrad, Vladica Dimitrov, must pay 30,000 dinars to Sergej Ivanov as compensation for non-material damage due to injury to honor and reputation, resulting from statements he made on Caribrod Television in early 2025.

A preliminary hearing was held before the Basic Court in Novi Sad in the case filed by the President of the Board of ANEM, Veran Matić, against the Center for Social Stability. Matić filed the lawsuit due to a violation of honor and reputation in the film "Evil Age 2," produced by this organization, in which he is labeled as a traitor and foreign mercenary.

Dijana Hrkalović, former secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was convicted in the first instance based on the lawsuit filed by KRIK editor Stevan Dojčinović for defamation and is required to pay him 100,000 dinars.