MEDIA SCENE OF SERBIA IN NOVEMBER 2025

In Monitoring, which covers the month in which the International Day of Combating Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists is marked, the reader can be informed about the insights reached by the European Commission in its report on Serbia's progress in the process of joining the European Union. In the light of punishing journalists for informing the public about issues they have a legitimate interest in being informed about, the conclusion reached during the discussion between representatives of ANEM and local media is stated: it is necessary for journalists to be well prepared for reporting from the field and to carry protective equipment with them. Media workers, it was noted in the monitoring from the previous months ending in November, are worryingly often not protected even by the police present on the ground.

Visibly displayed journalistic symbols did not help journalists who reported during two hunger strikes: the strike of Dijana Hrka, the mother of Stefan Hrka, a young man who was killed when a canopy fell in Novi Sad, and the strike of bus owner and driver Milomir Jaćimović, who provided wholehearted help to students during the protests they organized. The following were the targets of attacks and pressures: Insajder media journalists Nataša Mijušković and Stefan Miljuš, Radio DIR from Ruma photo reporters, daily newspaper Danas journalist Vojin Radovanović, FoNet Agency photo reporter Marko Čonjagić, the KRIK investigative portal journalist , the portal Pazovačke.rs journalists Ana Ubavić and Stefana Budimirović, members of the KTV team, IN Medija editor-in-chief Verica Marinčić, Razglas News editor Žarko Bogosavljević, TV N1 journalist Sanja Kosović, journalists of the Subotičke.rs portal and the Magločistač portal. The fenced area in front of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia proved to be dangerous in the case of Srbin Info channel journalist Nada Gladović, the Insajder editorial team, N1 journalist and cameraman Maja Nikolić and Ivan Pavlović.

During the reporting from the elections in Negotin, Mionica and Sečanj, journalists were threatened and attacked, even though they were wearing visible signs of their profession. The following were exposed to brutality and pressure: photojournalist Gavrilo Andrić, Nova S correspondent Katarina Golubović, journalist of the student media Blokada info, Mašina portal editor-in-chief Marko Miletić and his colleagues, Za medija portal journalist Milena Ilić, NG portal journalist Suzana Mihajlović Jovanović.

During November, threats were made to Tatjana Aleksić, Sanja Kosović, Mladen Savatović and other journalists of TV N1, the editorial office of the Epicenter Press portal from Čačak. Websites and email accounts of KRIK and Južne vesti newsrooms suffered hacker attacks. The Instagram accounts of photojournalist Irena Radosavljević and students in the blockade were the target of a potentially discrediting influx of "followers". Minister of Information and Telecommunications Boris Bratina defamed the journalists of TV N1, Nova S and Radio Free Europe. Nusreta Brunčević, a journalist from Novi Pazar, was baselessly accused on TV Informer. A campaign was conducted on social networks against the journalist Suzana Trninić.

The reader can find out about all of the above, as well as the legally binding verdict that ended the proceedings regarding the threat to the safety of journalist Isidora Kovačević, the events during the elections for members of the REM Council and news from the field of project co-financing - the reader can find information in the Monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for November 2025.

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