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The organization for the protection of human rights, Amnesty International (AI), evaluated in a report published today on the state of human rights in the world that in Serbia, protesters, journalists, and civil society organizations have faced intimidation, harassment, and unlawful surveillance by authorities attempting to curb widespread discontent.

So far, 141 local government, the Vojvodina Secretariat, and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications have announced competitions for project co-financing of media content for the year 2026.

Former employees of Euronews Serbia stated today, on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of their distancing from an unsigned statement by that media house which called for the termination of the student and civic blockade of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), that they would respond in the same manner as they did then.

The new handbook from the Press Council and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) presents an analysis of the application of the new Code of Journalists in Serbia through the practice of the Complaints Commission. The publication includes specific examples of media reporting, including cases of defamation of individuals, publication of personal data, and dissemination of unverified information.

Nearly 70 percent of media workers in the Pčinja District are taking on additional jobs to secure a monthly income sufficient for living, according to a study on the standards and situation of colleagues conducted in February this year by the portal Slobodna reč. During the research, attempts were noted to discourage journalists from speaking publicly about working conditions and the state of local media. One-third of currently employed colleagues earn less than the alarming amount of 60,000 dinars.

IN Media is launching a fundraising campaign for legal costs incurred in SLAPP proceedings, and donors who contribute 1,000 dinars will receive books from the publishing house Samizdat.

When, in 2015, following the adoption of a set of media laws, the then President of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia, Vukašin Obradović, spoke about the pillars of project co-financing – public interest and strict control over the spending of funds – expectations were high. In theory, the system was supposed to ensure that public money went to the highest quality media projects, primarily investigative ones, while control mechanisms would guarantee the legality and purposefulness of the expenditures.

On April 11, we marked 27 years since the unpunished murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, a prominent Serbian journalist and publisher of Dnevni Telegraf and Evropljanin. As the Latin saying goes, "Fiat justitia ruat caelum" – "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." But what can we say when there is no justice, and the heavens have fallen upon everyone in Serbia? We live in a state of criminal anarchy and unprecedented violence.