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It is not only a characteristic of the media landscape, but it may be the most obvious aspect: the more laws, by-laws, training sessions, round tables, consultations, analyses, and research there are – the worse the situation "on the ground" becomes. And this is certainly not just a matter of perception. For example, look at the European Commission's reports on Serbia's progress in the European integration process. These reports use diplomatic language and very cautiously and indirectly provide negative assessments. In fact, even when translated into Serbian, they require further clarification and translation so that the "ordinary citizen" can understand what kind of country we are living in, at least from the perspective of Brussels.

The Coalition for Media Freedom expresses solidarity and support for Veran Matić and other targeted colleagues and associates in the work "Evil Era 2: The Creation of Propaganda." 

The Center for the Development of Local Media most strongly condemns the openly propagandistic and politically motivated “film” produced by the Center for Social Stability, which has the sole purpose of publicly discrediting and targeting Veran Matić, the President of the Management Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM).

The Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV) strongly condemns the propaganda "film" produced by the regime's Center for Social Stability with the aim of publicly discrediting Veran Matić, the president of the Management Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM).

On national frequency televisions – Pink, B92, Prva, and Hepi, as well as the first two channels of Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) during 2025, a total of 5,047 violations related to the Advertising Law were recorded, according to reports from the Monitoring and Analysis Department of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).

At 11:52 AM on November 22, 2024 – exactly at the time when the canopy at the Novi Sad railway station killed 15 people three weeks earlier – a small number of citizens from Bečej gathered in the city center for the first "Stop, Serbia" rally. The silence of mourning under the cold November rain was abruptly interrupted by noise and insults from a group arriving from the direction of the Serbian Progressive Party offices.

The Coalition for Media Freedom demands that the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications and the Business Registers Agency urgently align the Media Register with the Law on Public Information and Media, which came into effect in the second half of 2023.

At the beginning of the trial against KRIK, Predrag Koluvija stated that the information claiming he is connected to the ruling party and the UDBA is inaccurate and offensive, as he comes from a Chetnik family. He mentioned that he has sued "everyone alive" for similar statements.

Radovan Seratlić, a journalist at TV Nova, is this year's recipient of the Regional Award for Television Journalism “Gordana Suša,” which is awarded by NUNS in collaboration with partner associations from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.