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Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) has announced a new competition today for the selection of the general director of the organization, after none of the candidates received a sufficient number of votes in the first competition.

The announcement of resignations by four newly elected members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) has once again raised the question of whether the election of this body was conducted lawfully or if it is yet another political maneuver by the authorities to maintain control over the media regulator. Attorney and elected member of the REM Council Rodoljub Šabić claims that the election process grossly violated both the "letter and spirit of the law," while retired professor of Political Science Rade Veljanovski assesses that the threat of resignations is a poor decision that could enable the authorities to secure even absolute control over REM in the future.

The Board of Directors of Radio-Television of Serbia has made a decision to reissue the public competition for the appointment of the General Director of RTS, as none of the candidates who met the requirements of the competition received the necessary two-thirds majority of votes.

Journalists from local media in the digital environment are most threatened by members of political parties who are not in high positions. Party officials publicly label them as enemies, and the risk to digital security has significantly increased due to reporting on student protests, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Regional Information Agency JUGpress.

The city of Niš today announced the results of the competition for project co-financing of media content, which was announced for the distribution of the remaining 26,580,000 dinars, or the amount that was not awarded in the first competition of this year.

The Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV) strongly condemns the appointment of Vuk Raonić as Deputy Mayor of Novi Sad, considering his direct involvement in violence against journalists, which has yet to be sanctioned.

“At the end of this year, we can say that the situation in which media workers in Serbia find themselves is the worst in Europe today and the worst in the last 25 years,” emphasized Veran Matić, the president of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media, in an interview with FoNet.

The media outlet FAR from Dimitrovgrad has released a documentary film titled "Under Surveillance."

Selected members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) Rodoljub Šabić, Mileva Malešić, Ira Prodanov Krajišnik, and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković announced today that they will officially resign on Friday at 12 PM if the National Assembly of Serbia does not repeat the voting and conduct an election between the two legally established candidates for the Council of National Minorities by then.