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The Board of Directors of Radio-Television of Serbia has made a decision to reissue the public competition for the appointment of the General Director of RTS, as none of the candidates who met the requirements of the competition received the necessary two-thirds majority of votes.

Journalists from local media in the digital environment are most threatened by members of political parties who are not in high positions. Party officials publicly label them as enemies, and the risk to digital security has significantly increased due to reporting on student protests, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Regional Information Agency JUGpress.

The city of Niš today announced the results of the competition for project co-financing of media content, which was announced for the distribution of the remaining 26,580,000 dinars, or the amount that was not awarded in the first competition of this year.

The Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV) strongly condemns the appointment of Vuk Raonić as Deputy Mayor of Novi Sad, considering his direct involvement in violence against journalists, which has yet to be sanctioned.

“At the end of this year, we can say that the situation in which media workers in Serbia find themselves is the worst in Europe today and the worst in the last 25 years,” emphasized Veran Matić, the president of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media, in an interview with FoNet.

The media outlet FAR from Dimitrovgrad has released a documentary film titled "Under Surveillance."

Selected members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) Rodoljub Šabić, Mileva Malešić, Ira Prodanov Krajišnik, and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković announced today that they will officially resign on Friday at 12 PM if the National Assembly of Serbia does not repeat the voting and conduct an election between the two legally established candidates for the Council of National Minorities by then.

The Assembly Committee of Serbia for Culture and Information has established a list of two candidates for the member of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) proposed by the national councils of national minorities – Sreten Jovanović and Ištvan Bodžoni.

Seven years ago, they at least hesitated a little; there wasn't as much public targeting of journalists. Now, it's an open hunt for journalists, so may God help you, the younger ones. I escaped death, and you should be careful. Because this has nothing to do with politics anymore; this is not politics, this is organized crime, says Milan Jovanović, whose house was burned down on December 12, 2018. The criminals have been convicted, but the court has not yet decided on damages.