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Selected members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) Rodoljub Šabić, Mileva Malešić, Ira Prodanov Krajišnik, and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković announced today that they will officially resign on Friday at 12 PM if the National Assembly of Serbia does not repeat the voting and conduct an election between the two legally established candidates for the Council of National Minorities by then.

The Assembly Committee of Serbia for Culture and Information has established a list of two candidates for the member of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) proposed by the national councils of national minorities – Sreten Jovanović and Ištvan Bodžoni.

Seven years ago, they at least hesitated a little; there wasn't as much public targeting of journalists. Now, it's an open hunt for journalists, so may God help you, the younger ones. I escaped death, and you should be careful. Because this has nothing to do with politics anymore; this is not politics, this is organized crime, says Milan Jovanović, whose house was burned down on December 12, 2018. The criminals have been convicted, but the court has not yet decided on damages.

The annual award of the Novi Sad School of Journalism "Marina Kovačev" was presented in Novi Sad, with the recipients including the university media Blokada.info and Univerzitetski odjek, as well as the editorial team of 021 and Subotica's Magločistač.

The search for the person who attacked the N1 television news crew in front of the tent settlement known as "Ćacilend" on November 20 and broke the camera and tripod is still ongoing, it was stated to N1 by the Prosecutor's Office. Although the journalists have identified the suspect, according to the latest information from the relevant prosecutor's office, he has not been arrested even after 20 days since the incident.

"The threats that female journalists receive in the online space are incomparably more terrifying than those received by male journalists," said Veran Matić, president of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, in an interview with Nova S television.

Since the protests in Serbia began, violence against journalists has increased. The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) has registered 318 attacks this year, nearly double the number compared to the previous two years. International organizations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) from the United States, are warning about the increasingly dangerous situation for media workers in Serbia. The CPJ is one of the few remaining voices from the U.S. that continues to respond to threats to media freedom worldwide. Atila Mong, the organization's representative for Europe, warns in an interview with Svet i Mi that journalists in Serbia are becoming less safe due to societal tensions and the lack of political will to prosecute and punish those responsible for attacks against them.

Although this year there have fortunately been no killings, kidnappings, or imprisonments in our country, Serbia, with 91 confirmed physical attacks on journalists, unfortunately deserves a special mention in the report from Reporters Without Borders. Just like Aleksandar Vučić, who appears on the list of "predators of press freedom" by RSF. Reporters testify to a deadly year for journalists worldwide: 67 killed, 503 imprisoned, 135 missing.

Gavrilo Andrić is one of the photographers who marked the student protests. Many will remember them for the footage he captured. Perhaps that is why he has been physically attacked so many times. In some of the attacks, the police were involved. He does not understand why, as a society, we do not respond more seriously to violence, but at the same time, he testifies to how photographic civic engagement can be beautiful.