SERBIA'S MEDIA SCENE IN SEPTEMBER 2024

Readers can find out about the problems on the media scene in the Republic of Serbia, which were pointed out by Maja Sever, president of the European Federation of Journalists, during her meeting with Dejan Ristic, Minister of Information and Telecommunications in the Government of the RS.

Monitoring also discussed the report made in the first half of September by the Platform for Rapid Response to Media Freedom Violations (MFRR); the support that, at the beginning of September, the organization PEN International provided to Nenad Kulačin, journalist and co-author of the podcast "the Good, the Bad, the Evil"; the media campaign conducted against the journalists of the KRIK portal; the unfounded ban due to which the "Pištaljka" journalist could not attend the opening of bids for the purchase of the state company Yugoslav River Shipping (JRB); threats to which the journalist Jelena S. Spasić and the news agency Tanjug were exposed. Monitoring also follows the fate of Andrei Gnyot, a Belarusian journalist, director and political activist; the case of missing files in the case of OK Radio; the search for the person who admitted to threatening journalist Ana Lalić Hegediš.

A special chapter of Monitoring is dedicated to marking the anniversaries of murders and disappearances of journalists from Kosovo.

In chapters on current and new laws and the state of SLAPP lawsuits against media, the monitoring records problems in the project co-financing process, first instance epilogue of one of the seven lawsuits filed against Verica Marinčić, INMedija portal editor, the termination of the criminal proceedings, which were initiated by Nikola Petrović, one of the closest friends of the Serbian President and the former director of the public company Elektromreža Srbije against BIRN editor Milorad Ivanović and journalist Jelena Veljković due to the alleged unauthorized collection of personal data.

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