MEDIA SCENE OF SERBIA IN OCTOBER 2025

During October, the European Parliament adopted the "Resolution on polarization and increased repression in Serbia one year after the tragedy in Novi Sad". The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and the the Organization for European Security and Cooperation (OSCE) Mission to Serbia organized two expert meetings, one in Novi Sad and the other in Niš, where the topic was the safety of journalists in the field. With the conversation "Impunity is a crime - let's prevent it", ANEM and OSCE marked the International Day Against Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.

In October Monitoring report, the following attacks, threats and pressure against media workers were noted: N1 journalist Jelena Mirković, Storyteller portal journalist Brankica Matić, Mašina portal journalist Darija Stjepić and the entire newsroom of that portal, N1 journalist Lea Apro, Beta agency and Autonomija portal journalist Dalibor Stupar, two journalists and a cameraman from A1 portal from Novi Pazar, Glas Zaječara journalist Miljko Stojanović, Glas Šumadije portal journalist Jovana Ristić, journalist of the FAR portal from Dimitrovgrad Sergej Ivanov, editorial staff of the Kraljevo weekly Sidža, journalists of the Magločistač portal, journalist and aphorist Jovan Zafirović, editorial staff of the Danas portal, authors of "The Good, the Bad, the Evil" podcast Marko Vidojković and Nenad Kulačin, ANEM president and member of Permanent Working Group for Safety of Journalists Veran Matić, editorial staff of the N1 portal, BIRN journalist Radmilo Marković, journalist and professor Dinko Gruhonjić, journalist of the Danas daily Vojin Radovanović and Aleksandra Krstić, professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

During October, high-ranking state officials also verbally attacked media workers. Insults and inflammatory statements were addressed to them from the parliamentary platform and from Uzbekistan, where Serbian president was on a state visit, through social networks and traditional media.

In the Monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for October 2025, the reader can be informed about all of the above, as well as the results of the process for selecting members of the REM Council, the results of project co-financing and the course of two court proceedings conducted following the lawsuit filed by Predrag Koluvija against the publisher of the BIRN portal and editor-in-chief Milorad Ivanović; and the lawsuit filed by the judge of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade Dušanka Đorđević and her husband, a lawyer by profession, against Bojana Jovanović, editor of the KRIK portal and the database "Judge who judges", and Jelene Radivojević, author of the profile of judge Đorđević in the aforementioned database.

This publication was published with the financial support of the European Union and Norway and the Balkan Fund for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the USA. The Association of Independent Electronic Media is solely responsible for its content, and that content does not necessarily express the official views of the European Union, the Government of Norway, the German Marshall Fund and the Balkan Fund for Democracy.

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