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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.

At today's meeting of the Parliamentary Committee for Culture and Information, the opinions of the relevant ministries regarding the implementation of the legal provisions in the process of proposing candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media were discussed, as well as a proposal to postpone the Public Hearing on the topic "Discussion with Candidates for Members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media," the Committee stated in a press release.

The regular Assembly of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia was held in Belgrade. Following the Assembly session, a panel was conducted to present the latest report on the state of media freedom in Serbia.

It will be increasingly difficult for journalists. I expect many more casualties, grieving families, and attacks on reporting everywhere, says Anthony Bellanger, Secretary General of the International Federation of Journalists, regarding the fact that no one has been held accountable for the murders of at least 184 journalists and media workers in the conflicts in Gaza and four in Iran. He speaks about the collapse of the United Nations and the impotence of the international community.