SERBIA'S MEDIA SCENE IN AUGUST 2024

The response to that campaign was a demand that the Minister of Information and Telecommunications, Dejan Ristic, resign. Representatives of the Coalition for Media Freedom, reacting to the announcement of the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, submitted the finished text of the resignation to the ministry and left the scheduled meeting. In addition to the above, the monitoring for August covered the epilogue of the attack on journalist Uglješa Bokić, the fate of Andrej Gnjot, a Belarusian journalist, director and political activist, the course of illegal actions in connection with OK Radio, where the missing case files have not yet been found. Special attention was paid to cases of pressure on the Serbian media in Kosovska Mitrovica. Euronews journalist Anđelka Ćup was prevented from attending the press conference organized by Srpska lista in Kosovska Mitrovica. At the same event, journalists Ivana Vanovac, editor of Radio Mitrovica Sever, and Maja Fićović, journalist and director of Radio Mitrovica Sever, as well as journalists from Prva TV and Media Alternativa, experienced discomfort. The topic of Serbian media from the north of Kosovo and Metohija, which does not receive information about the visits of representatives of Prishtina, was also opened. There was also a case of endangering the security of the KoSSev newsroom by creating fabricated news and publishing photo montages. Also, in this Monitoring, a special place is left for the anniversaries of the disappearance of Serbian journalists on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija.

The monitoring deals with the justified suspicions following the announcement by the director of the Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Arno Guyon, that teams will be formed to monitor news about Serbia in foreign media.

As in the previous reports, in the August Monitoring, the number of unannounced tenders for project co-financing was recorded, and in connection with that, the mechanism for misuse of the project co-financing was marked. The refusal of the National Assembly committee responsible for information to act in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Electronic Media was also noted.

Monitoring of anti-SLAPP news also has an important place in this month's report. Readers of Monitoring will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the key points of the published analysis "From Silence to Empowerment: The Regional Response to SLAPP Lawsuits in the Western Balkans".

You can read about all that in the Monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for August 2024.

Media monitoring was published with the financial support of the European Union and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication of the Republic of Serbia. The Association of Independent Electronic Media is solely responsible for its content, and that content in no way expresses the official views of the European Union and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication.

This Monitoring Report was prepared by expert monitoring team from the law office "Savović" in cooperation with ANEM.