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The proposal of the decision by the commission for the allocation of funds in the competition for co-financing projects in the field of public information in the municipality of Novi Bečej for the year 2025 envisages that the funds will be granted to only one media outlet – the company VTV d.o.o. from Subotica, which operates TV Novi Bečej.

From 2015 to the present, or during the past 11 years, the City of Kruševac has distributed a total of just over 181 million dinars, specifically 181,203,000 dinars, in media competitions, according to an analysis conducted by the Center for Investigative Journalism Kruševac (CINK). The data shows that by far the largest amount of money during this period was received by Radio Television Kruševac, which was allocated 79.56 million dinars. If we add the 22.46 million set aside for Radio Kruševac and the 8.59 million for the RTK portal, the total amounts to 110.613 million dinars, which is 61 percent of the total amount.

The City of Belgrade has once again allocated the largest portion of funds in this year's competition for co-financing media projects to regime media that violate the Code of Journalists of Serbia. The champion of the competition this time is Studio B, which received a total of 12.5 million dinars for three projects. In second place is the publisher of Informer, the company Insider Team, which was granted 10.5 million dinars, also for three projects. Third place is occupied by Alo and its subsidiary Bizmedia, which together received 7 million dinars.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS), the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS), and Local Press point out that the evaluation of media projects and the allocation of funds within the project co-financing process continued in June, accompanied by numerous controversial decisions, irregularities, and a lack of transparency in the process.

The editorial team of FAR, a bilingual internet portal from Dimitrovgrad that publishes information in Bulgarian and Serbian, is primarily funded through foreign donations, as our projects do not succeed in local and national competitions due to our critical reporting, said Danijela Apostolov Videnov, a journalist for the portal.

The meeting of this year's and future candidates for members of the committees for project evaluation within the media content project co-financing process was held today, organized by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) in collaboration with the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS), the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS), and Lokal Press.

The municipality of Golubac allocated the least amount of money for projects in this year's competitions, only 100,000 dinars. The minimum amount that can be awarded per project is 20,000 dinars, while the maximum is 50,000 dinars.

The gminfo portal has rejected the funds allocated this year through the competition for co-financing projects for the production of media content in the field of public information for the year 2025, which was announced by the municipality of Gornji Milanovac.

The media of the two local media moguls are known for reporting in Serbian, but that was no obstacle. The Ministry of Information left only crumbs for the true minority media.