How the candidates for the media competition committees were scored on the MIT list.

The list features the highest number of independent media experts - a total of 40, followed by representatives of the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS), of which there are 13.

The PROUNS Association has nine candidates on the list, RAB Serbia and the Niš Journalists' Society each have six, the Center for Media Culture and Education, the Association of Radio and Television of Serbia, and Comnet each have five, while the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS), the Media Community of Serbia, and the Journalists' Society of Vojvodina each have four candidates.

The Plej and Lokal Press associations each have three representatives on the current list of candidates for the competition committees, the Media and Media Workers Association has two, and ANEM, the Heart Ensemble, and the Belgrade Sports Journalists' Association each have one.

This year's list includes 20 candidates, all of whom have achieved a maximum of 100 points, with the same number scoring above 90.

Among those with 100 points, the majority are independent experts - six of them, three from the Journalists' Society of Vojvodina, and two each from the Center for Media Culture, Plej, Comnet, and PROUNS.

The Media Community of Serbia, the Niš Journalists' Society, and the Association of Radio and Television of Serbia each have one candidate with the maximum score.

More than 90 points, but not 100, is achieved by six media experts, four representatives from UNS, three from the Center for Media Culture, two each from PROUNS and the Association of Radio and Television of Serbia, while one candidate each with such a high score comes from Comnet, the Belgrade Sports Journalists' Association, and RAB Serbia.

The complete list is available at this link.

As a reminder, no individual can be a member of more than 20 evaluation committees for media projects in a single year, as stipulated by the Regulation on Amendments to the Regulation on Co-financing Projects for Achieving Public Interest in the Field of Public Information, which was adopted on November 10 of this year.

Until now, there were no restrictions, and we had a case where, during 2025, independent expert Branimir Grulović was a member of 65 different committees, Branislav Sančanin in 52, and Miodrag Miljković, a candidate from the Center for Media Culture and Education, in 32 committees.

Following them are Slavoljub Ristić representing the Professional Association of Journalists of Serbia (PROUNS) with participation in 26 committees, Miloš Rajković on behalf of the Association of Radio Stations “RAB Serbia,” and Dragana Stefanović representing the Alliance of Associations “Association of Radio and Television of Serbia” with 22 committees each.

The complete analysis of committee members is available at this link.

Media associations and journalist unions (the Association of Independent Electronic Media, the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia, the Journalists' Association of Serbia, Lokal Press, and the Media Association) have agreed in August of this year on a proposal regarding necessary changes in the process of project co-financing for media content, which has been officially sent to the addresses of the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications.

Among those proposals was a request to limit the number of committees one person can participate in during the year to five, as well as to amend the scoring method for candidates for the committees; however, a response from the Ministry regarding this request for changes has never been received.

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