SERBIA'S MEDIA SCENE IN OCTOBER 2024
In October, Dragoljub Simonović began serving the prison sentence he was sentenced to for setting fire to the house of Milan Jovanović, a journalist from the Žig Info portal.
A first-instance verdict was handed down for pasting a "wanted warrant" against journalist Isidora Kovačević, editor-in-chief of Podrinjske media. The car of Nevenka Medić, director of the publisher of the information portal and media agency KoSSev, was damaged. Ljubomir Stefanović, the author of the YouTube channel Slavija Info, informed the public that he was intercepted and, accompanied by several persons, unjustifiably taken to the premises of the BIA for an interview. Nenad Kulačin, co-author of "The Good, the Bad, the Evil" show, received a threatening message again...
In the Monitoring of the media scene, the key insights obtained based on the statistics of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office on the difference in the number of injured journalists were processed. The commemoration of the anniversaries of the deaths of journalists killed in Kosovo in the late 90s and early 2000s continued. In the light of the public debate on the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Advertising, key issues that should be regulated by the Law but the Draft Law did not deal with were pointed out by media associations. Project co-financing was also a topic, and with it the finding of the Association of Journalists of Serbia that almost 600 million dinars less than the previous year was allocated for the co-financing of media content production projects in the field of public information.
In addition to the above, Monitoring also discussed the concern expressed by the organization "The Media Freedom Rapid Response" due to the legal pressures faced by journalists of the KRIK portal, especially considering the criminal proceedings against Stevan Dojčinović and Bojana Pavlović initiated by judge Dušanka Đorđević and her lawyer husband, and in which prison sentences and a ban on practicing journalism are demanded for journalists.
You can read about all that in the Monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for October 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.
