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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).

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. 

In 2015, local governments distributed funds to the media for the first time under the new law using a project co-financing model.

So far, 135 local governments, the Vojvodina Secretariat, and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications have announced competitions for project co-financing of media content for the year 2026.

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, the Provincial Secretariat in Vojvodina, and 120 local governments have announced 135 competitions for project co-financing of media content, as stated in the database of the Unified Information System (UIS) of the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications.

The Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information, and Relations with Religious Communities has announced today the competitions for co-financing media projects in the field of public information for the year 2026.

The Municipality of Merošina has revoked its previously adopted decision to announce a competition for project co-financing of media content for the year 2026. The reason likely lies in the fact that the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has urged authorities not to announce competitions until the final list of candidates for the project evaluation committee members is published.

The competitions for project co-funding of media content for the year 2026 were announced today by Novi Pazar and Petrovac na Mlavi, although the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has not yet published the final list of candidates for the members of the project evaluation committees.