SERBIA'S MEDIA SCENE IN JULY 2024
The monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for the month of July is dedicated to the cases of pressure to which the journalist Tamara Skrozza, deputy editor-in-chief of the news agency FoNet, and journalist Srđan Škoro and KTV television were exposed.
They suffered pressure because of their statements, interpreted incorrectly and very tendentially, statements that were followed by problematic announcements from the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications.
They were not the only ones exposed to pressure, that is why in the Monitoring report you can also read about the pressures to which journalists were exposed in Kosovska Mitrovica, a city where journalists are also threatened by the recently adopted Law on the Independent Media Commission. The vandalism towards OK Radio did not stop, and attention was also paid to the criminal complaint that Dejan Nikolić Kantar, who is currently serving a prison sentence for threatening the owner and employee of that media, filed against Veran Matić for allegedly committing Obstruction of Justice.
In the Monitoring Report, there was also talk about a video with very controversial content, which was first published in tabloids, and then in the media with a national frequency. With that video, the media that critically report on the current government, as well as the interlocutors of those media, are accused of running a campaign against the President of the Republic of Serbia.
The case of the Belarusian journalist Andrei Gnyot, the lawsuit of Ratko Romić, a former member of the state Security Intelligence Agency, against the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, the lawsuit of Miroslav Kurak, also a former member of the SIA, against the editorial office of NIN, the escape of a person who was ordered not to leave the apartment because, according to the person's own admission before the prosecution, he threatened Ana Lalić Hegediš - all found an important place in the Monitoring Report.
The Report also considers irregularities in the process of project co-financing, the review of the statistics of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office during 2024 regarding cases of attacks on journalists, the statistics of NUNS on the recorded number of attacks on journalists, the report of NUNS and OBC Transeuropa (OBCT) "Government rights and freedom of the media in Serbia: Report from the shadows for the year 2024" and the report on the rule of law in 2024 prepared by the European Commission.
About all that you can read in the Monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for July 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.
