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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.

The wave of local media establishment has swept through Serbia in the past month, making the media landscape "richer" with 11 new portals founded by the same company, "Zaple Media Group." These media outlets even share the same editor, and according to media expert Veran Matić, they will serve to confuse the public as they will contain the same propaganda content. Some of these media have emerged in cities where local elections are anticipated, but one was also established in Niš, even though elections are not announced there. This is the portal "Snaga juga," which was founded as the last in the series, just one week before the media competition of the City of Niš, which this year is allocating as much as 100 million dinars to media outlets. 

The daughter of the murdered journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, Jelena Ćuruvija, stated today that even 27 years after her father's murder, there has been no progress in the pursuit of justice and truth.

They were rude, there were insults. They were truly disgusting towards both Kokanović's daughter and his wife. I have no other words to describe it. There were moments when I thought they would hit me, says Gavrilo Andrić, a photographer who was detained by the police in Loznica for capturing the brutal treatment of the daughter of activist Zlatko Kokanović.

After 10 months in prison and two years of practicing journalism, judge of the Appellate Court in Belgrade Dušanka Đorđević and her husband, lawyer Aleksandar, are seeking legal action they initially filed against the editor-in-chief of KRIK, Stevan Dojčinović, and journalist Bojana Pavlović, and subsequently added editor Bojana Jovanović and author of the profile on judge Jelena Radivojević to the list of defendants.