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Local media are emerging ahead of the elections: The same company, the same editor, the same registration day.
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Local media are emerging ahead of the elections: The same company, the same editor, the same registration day.

January 20, 2026

The same owner, the same editor, the same propaganda - in several places where local elections are being held this year, three new pro-regime local portals have been established simultaneously.

Veran Matić: The attack on media Instagram accounts is a clearly politically motivated action.
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Veran Matić: The attack on media Instagram accounts is a clearly politically motivated action.

January 19, 2026

The Chairman of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), Veran Matić, stated in an interview with Danas that the attack on the Instagram accounts of independent media, civil society organizations, and photojournalists is one of the largest assaults on social media accounts.

Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation: Daily campaigns of intimidation and silencing are creating an atmosphere in which it is unbearable to be a journalist.
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Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation: Daily campaigns of intimidation and silencing are creating an atmosphere in which it is unbearable to be a journalist.

January 19, 2026

The Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation has announced that it is appalled by the escalation of attacks on independent journalists and media, in which all means are being used to intimidate and silence them.

Committee: The new competition for four members of the REM Council has been canceled; there were no applications.
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Committee: The new competition for four members of the REM Council has been canceled; there were no applications.

January 19, 2026

The decision to initiate the procedure for proposing candidates for the election of members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) dated December 29, 2025, has been revoked, it was decided today at the meeting of the Assembly's Committee on Culture and Information.

"Pančevo, have you collected the funds for the payment of court costs?"
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"Pančevo, have you collected the funds for the payment of court costs?"

January 19, 2026

The editorial team of the Pančevo Si Ti portal expressed gratitude to the citizens who, over the past four days, made donations to the bank account of the civil association *Građanska akcija Pančevo*, the founder of this media outlet, to cover the costs of the legal proceedings initiated against them by the media worker from Vršac, Aleksandar Čupić.

The Radar account on Instagram has been permanently disabled, and the editorial accounts of Nova have been temporarily suspended.
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The Radar account on Instagram has been permanently disabled, and the editorial accounts of Nova have been temporarily suspended.

January 18, 2026

Three accounts on the social media platform Instagram, owned by the editorial team of Nova, have been temporarily suspended today, while the account of the Radar portal on the same platform has been terminated.

A new portal by Slavko Stijaković has been registered: He received funding for 117 projects for 30 media outlets in 2025.
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A new portal by Slavko Stijaković has been registered: He received funding for 117 projects for 30 media outlets in 2025.

January 18, 2026

On January 16, a new local media outlet, the Božur portal, was registered in the Media Register of the Business Registers Agency (APR), based in Gračanica, Kosovo. This is yet another media outlet owned by retired officer Slavko Stijaković, who owns a network of local media in Serbia.

Veran Matić: There has never been any genuine desire from the authorities for a functional REM Council.
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Veran Matić: There has never been any genuine desire from the authorities for a functional REM Council.

January 17, 2026

The Chairman of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), Veran Matić, stated for NIN that the association has publicly declared that it will not respond to the Public Call of the Committee for Culture and Information and will not propose a candidate for a member of the REM Council.

Alo has acquired the local television stations TV-5 and Lav Plus from Užice, and has established two additional companies.
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Alo has acquired the local television stations TV-5 and Lav Plus from Užice, and has established two additional companies.

January 17, 2026

Television 5 and TV Lav Plus, both from Užice, changed owners on January 13 and 14 of this year and are now owned by the company Alo Media System, which publishes the daily newspaper and portal Alo, as stated in the data from the Business Registers Agency (APR).