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The Ministry of Economy has announced a public call for the collection of bids within the public competition for the sale of capital of Radio-Television (RTV) Kragujevac. The starting sale price for this media house has been set at 100% of the capital value, specifically 144,290 EUR.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) strongly condemns the threats directed at journalist Dragan Karalazić from the "Podrinje" editorial office in Šabac, which were sent to him through comments on social media.

A potential termination of collaboration with a large number of freelance collaborators and employees on fixed-term contracts has been announced, as reported by UNS, during the programming committee meeting of Radio-Television of Vojvodina (RTV).

With the arrival of television, they said, "radio is finished." With the arrival of the internet, they said, "television is finished." Both times, they were wrong.

The trial of the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation concerning the lawsuits filed by former officials and members of the State Security Sector – Milan Radonjić, Ratko Romić, and Miroslav Kurak – has once again been postponed. This time it was due to the health condition of Judge Ljiljana Ilić.

The employees' initiative at Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) "Our Protest" publicly addressed the management of the public service today to express their concerns and simultaneously called for dialogue regarding the recent decisions to terminate cooperation with long-standing collaborators in production, as well as the termination of the employment relationship with Aleksandra Vidačić.

Opposition MPs assessed today, at a meeting of the Serbian Assembly's Committee for Culture and Information, that the process for selecting members of the REM (Regulatory Body for Electronic Media) Council has "failed," stating that representatives of the government are trying to impose rules that are contrary to the law - as they are only interested in having media control.

In the modern media environment, where information is ubiquitous yet often unreliable, media literacy becomes a crucial tool for safeguarding truth and democratic values. By strengthening media literacy, we build a more resilient society, empower individuals to seek and share accurate information, and create a space for professional, independent, and credible journalism that serves the public interest. This is the conclusion drawn by participants in the panel discussion "Media Literacy as a Citizen's Weapon Against Manipulation," organized by the Press Council.

The outcome could have been completely different. The government could have nominated associations and candidates who meet the precisely written legal requirements for the election of members of the REM Council. With the majority they hold in the parliamentary Culture and Information Committee, and subsequently in the National Assembly of Serbia, they could have selected a new Council, in which they would also have a majority of a total of nine members. Under pressure from students, the public, and even the European Union, they could have "allowed" a few independent candidates and thus concluded a process that has been delayed for months and which already experienced a debacle earlier this year due to its illegality. They could have, but they did not.