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As of the beginning of 2026, at least 88 new media outlets have been officially registered in Serbia, according to data from the Media Register of the Business Registers Agency (APR). At this time, the Media Register counts 2,339 public media outlets.

In June 2026, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation recorded at least 172 verbal attacks by state officials, party officials of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), and other representatives of the government against journalists and the media. The attacks were directed via social media, in media appearances, at party gatherings, and during sessions of the National Assembly. In the first six months of this year, the SĆF recorded 980 attacks.

Following the ban on entry into Serbia for journalist and host of the show "Načisto" on Montenegrin Television Vijesti, Petar Komnenić, as part of Belgrade's announced response to the recent decision by Montenegrin authorities to declare the editor and owner of the Serbian tabloid "Informer," Dragan J. Vučićević, an undesirable guest, another Montenegrin journalist has been banned from entering Serbia.

The fees for the members of the committees who assessed the applications submitted for the competitions for project co-financing of media content in Serbia were uneven this year, regardless of how much work they had or how many projects they had to read and score. The range this year was between 5,000 and 70,000 dinars, and at least 9.6 million dinars have been spent for this purpose so far.

The second hearing in the lawsuit filed by former Euronews Serbia journalist Marija Šehić against Arena News Channels LLC, the legal entity behind this media company in Telekom's portfolio, was held at the Third Basic Court in Belgrade at the beginning of the week.

Data from the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office show that in recent years, the number of requests made by prosecutors to the police for the collection of necessary information has been increasing, but responses to these requests are becoming increasingly absent. This is the first and one of the most important actions in the preliminary investigation process, without which the prosecution cannot continue the investigation in many cases.

The media publisher Zaple Media Group has received a total of 16.2 million dinars, or approximately 138,000 euros, in this year's completed competitions for project co-financing of media content, as indicated by an analysis from the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM).

The media registry still does not fulfill its function due to numerous structural weaknesses – a lack of transparency and genuine political will.

The most money from a total of 50 media competitions announced this year in Vojvodina was awarded to Radiotelevizija Pančevo, which received a total of 31,145,000 dinars for project implementation.