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The media TAKT and the association "Council of Citizens Novi Pazar" have launched a new media project called "ZBORKAST".

The tabloids Alo and Informer continue to expand their network of local media, having registered four more media portals through their subsidiary companies this week.

The Basic Court in Novi Sad has granted the lawsuit filed by journalists Maja Dragić and Jelena Obućina from N1 and TV Nova, obligating the Center for Social Stability in Novi Sad to pay them 100,000 dinars each as compensation for non-material damages due to violations of honor and reputation.

The Agency for Business Registers has made a change to the legal representative of N1, as part of the implementation of a unified corporate governance system within the Adria News Network (ANN).

On Sunday, during the election day, in the village of Šarbanovci near Bor, unknown thugs wearing masks randomly emerged from black SUVs and attacked activists, journalists, and students. That day, Lazar Dinić, a student, journalist for Revolt, and activist of the group Stav, sustained serious bodily injuries and is now facing surgery on his sinus bone after such relentless beating. In an interview with Nova.rs, Dinić said that the masked thugs beat him until they broke the bones in his head and until he agreed to say that “Aca is the president.”

Who knows what would have happened if a group of students hadn't shown up during the blockade; there was no one else there, they saved us, says Ivan Bjelić to Cenzolovka about the abuse by masked attackers on election day near Bora. He reported to the police that Lazar Dinić was missing, but they were not interested in searching for him. In the end, they let the car with the attackers go, saying, "You know how it is here."

"When I rewind the film, it seems to me that the guys in black have received the 'green light' to do whatever it takes to preserve the seats of the powerful," says Darko Gligorijević, a journalist for Zoomer, who was hit in the head and sprayed with pepper spray while reporting from the elections in Bajina Bašta, to Cenzolovka. Darko had previously been detained on charges of - shouting while he was reporting.

The media scene in Serbia reflects the tense socio-political situation, and the misuse of media could be counterproductive for the authorities, stated Saša Mirković, a representative of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), in an interview with the FoNet agency.

Media associations and journalists gathered in front of the Presidency building of Serbia to express solidarity with colleagues who were attacked while reporting on the local elections on March 29, as well as to highlight the increasingly difficult and dangerous situation for journalists in the field. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was invited to "come out and look journalists in the eye whose lives he thinks he can decide on." While this protest was taking place, people were also gathering in Pioneer Park.