The City of Belgrade continues to finance regime media that violate the Code.
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.
A total of 84,790,000 dinars was distributed in the competition, and 36 projects were co-financed, submitted by 27 media publishers and agencies for media content production.
Both Srbija Danas and Novosti received 5 million dinars, while Media Info Planet, owned by Miloš Antonijević – the editor-in-chief of Radio Plan and TV Plan – received 4 million dinars. His other company, Reč Pomoravlja, which is the publisher of the aforementioned media, received an additional 1 million dinars.
Internet Group, the publisher of the Telegraf portal, received a total of 4.84 million dinars. Minacord Media, the publisher of K1 television, received 4.5 million dinars, while the news agency Tanjug received 4.8 million dinars through the company Tačno doo, in which Minacord is one of the co-owners. River Media (UNA TV and una.rs) received 4.5 million dinars for two projects.
Among other recipients, entrepreneur Slobodan Đurić received 3.25 million dinars, while Tijana Vlahović, Slobodan Kosanović, and Dnevnik poljoprivrednik each received 3 million dinars. Kopernikus and the Association of Sports Journalists of Belgrade each received 1.5 million dinars.
1 million dinars was also awarded to entrepreneur Marica Marić, SOS Channel, the Amikus Association, and the Journalists' Association of Serbia.
The smallest amounts were received by: The Human Team Association and Merlinka Festival (each 500,000 dinars), BUM BUM (400,000 dinars), The Journalists' Union of Serbia (300,000 dinars), and The Alliance of Serbs from the Region (200,000 dinars).
From the documentation published on the portal of the Unified Information System, it is not possible to determine in which media the agencies for media content production will implement their projects.
Project Evaluation Commission
The commission for evaluating projects consisted of:
- Branislav Sančanin, as an independent media expert,
- Biljana Ratković Njegovan, at the proposal of the Journalists' Society of Vojvodina,
- Dragana Stefanović, at the proposal of the Association of Radio and Television of Serbia.
Biljana Ratković Njegovan participated in the work of the commission for the second consecutive year. Last year, she was selected by draw, as four candidates – Branislav Sančanin, Rade Veljanovski, Saša Mirković, and she – had the maximum number of points in the category for independently applied experts.
Media Awarded Despite Violations of the Code
The City of Belgrade continuously finances media that violate professional standards. There have been 33 complaints against TV Informer submitted to the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) during the previous and current year. The professional service of REM has noted multiple violations of the law and, in some cases, proposed the initiation of an investigation. However, since the REM Council has not yet been formed, no measures have been imposed.
The Press Council has issued:
- 10 public warnings to the portal Informer.rs,
- 5 warnings to the printed edition of Informer,
- 16 decisions regarding violations of the Code for the portal Alo.rs,
- 2 decisions for the printed edition of ALO,
- 14 decisions for the portal Novosti.rs, and
- 1 decision for the daily newspaper Večernje novosti.
You can view the resolution on the distribution of funds in the following attachment:
Resolution on the Distribution of Funds 2025
Source: NUNS, I.K.
