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The average person in Serbia is media illiterate, apathetic, and distrustful of everyone. This is a person with shattered trust in the media, spending hours consuming content that is mostly not news, says Professor Snježana Milivojević, author of the research on Serbia for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

From 2015 to the present, or during the past 11 years, the City of Kruševac has distributed a total of just over 181 million dinars, specifically 181,203,000 dinars, in media competitions, according to an analysis conducted by the Center for Investigative Journalism Kruševac (CINK). The data shows that by far the largest amount of money during this period was received by Radio Television Kruševac, which was allocated 79.56 million dinars. If we add the 22.46 million set aside for Radio Kruševac and the 8.59 million for the RTK portal, the total amounts to 110.613 million dinars, which is 61 percent of the total amount.

A FoNet journalist was confronted today in front of the National Assembly of Serbia while filming strong winds lifting tents set up on the roadway in front of the parliament building. A person staying in Pioneer Park grabbed her by the shoulder and demanded that she delete the footage.

In a statement released today by Yettel and SBB, it was announced that starting from July 29, the TV channels N1 and Nova will also be available to Yettel TV service users. These channels will be included in all new Yettel TV packages, including the basic package.

In recent days, we have witnessed almost daily attacks and disruptions in the work of journalists. The responsibility for targeting independent media lies with the highest levels of government, and the use of force during protests is increasingly being directed at journalists—both by aggressors and by the police. Such attacks have been recorded in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kosjerić, and numerous other cities.

The mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Serbia announced today that it is closely monitoring the escalation of violence in the days following the protests in Belgrade on June 28, including police actions, and emphasized that the safety of demonstrators, bystanders, and journalists is essential for the rule of law and democracy.

The City of Belgrade has once again allocated the largest portion of funds in this year's competition for co-financing media projects to regime media that violate the Code of Journalists of Serbia. The champion of the competition this time is Studio B, which received a total of 12.5 million dinars for three projects. In second place is the publisher of Informer, the company Insider Team, which was granted 10.5 million dinars, also for three projects. Third place is occupied by Alo and its subsidiary Bizmedia, which together received 7 million dinars.

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has strongly condemned the frequent incidents in which journalists and media workers are subjected to insults, intimidation, physical obstruction in their work, and systematic threats to their safety by blockaders in certain cities in Serbia.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Jan Bratu, visited the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) this week, where he discussed the current media situation in Serbia with Veran Matić and Saša Mirković.