The new OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, said during a recent visit to Serbia that this organisation is particularly concerned about the safety of journalists in the country, and that it is very important to shed light on attacks and unresolved murders of journalists.
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16. apr 2018.
Freedom House: Media freedom and democracy on the decline in Serbia
For the fourth consecutive year, the state of democracy in Serbia has deteriorated – on the issues of media independence, the civil sector, state administration and local government, while power is continuing to be concentrated in the hands of President Aleksandar Vučić, according to the latest Freedom House report on countries in transition.
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16. apr 2018.
Inspections of Southern News Continue
More than five months after the launch of unusually detailed inspections of Južnih vesti – the most popular independent media company in southern Serbia, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić has spoken with the Director of the Tax Administration and stated that checks should be completed in the shortest possible time, in order not to further hinder work, “provided there are no indications that they should be further expanded”, reports agency FoNet.
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16. apr 2018.
Media strategy finally complete, public debate coming soon
After a delay of more than a year, the working group within the Ministry of Culture and Information has, according to the minister, completed the media strategy that should be subjected to public debate in the coming days.
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16. apr 2018.
Government pressure on local media via inspection controls
One of the most highly-reputed and well-read local media outlets in Serbia, portal Južne vesti (Southern News), based in the southeast Serbian city of Niš, has been subjected to monitoring by two parallel inspections for the past several months, on the basis of “anonymous reports”.
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16. apr 2018.
BBC Serbian starts operating
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16. apr 2018.
Tanjug Agency fabricates a report on media freedom in Serbia
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16. apr 2018.
Vučić says he will no longer appear on public service until they guarantee not to quieten his tone
After Goran Vesić, a senior official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), claimed that he had his tone reduced while talking in a pre-election debate on Radio-Television Serbia (RTS), Serbian President and SNS leader Aleksandar Vučić threatened not to appear as a guest on RTS until they guarantee that they won’t also reduce the volume on him.
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25. dec 2017.
LESKOVAC: Media barely surviving
Media at the local level are not in a position to survive on the market, which is why most of them depend on project co-financing. Although this process is essential for the media, the conducting of contests have many shortcomings. In Leskovac as many as 19 media outlets received money through contests, which is the reason project co-financing has lost its purpose. The quality of projects is not considered in deciding. Capacities are weak when it comes to both media outlets and journalists.
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03. nov 2016.
Online Media in Serbia & Croatia: There is no Money, but there are Threats
Lack of money and aid, coupled with threats to journalists, are among the biggest challenges to online media in Serbia and Croatia, as shown by the results of a research conducted in 60 newsrooms (39 in Serbia and 21 in Croatia) by the Slavko Curuvija Foundation in Belgrade and the Association for Independent Media Culture…
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22. nov 2015.
Dragan J. Vučićević on TV Pink: This is no longer funny
We asked Tamara Skrozza to write an article about the anthological guest appearance of Informer editor Dragan J. Vučićević on TV Pink as soon as possible, because tomorrow, as D. J. V. announced, there will be a coup and a question will arise as to whether we will be able to publish the article after…
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09. nov 2015.
How much does the Speak-Up conference in Brussels really contribute to media freedom in Serbia?
Commissioner Hahn reiterated at the Speak-Up Conference that the issue of media freedom is central to Serbia’s EU integration process. Among some participants, however, criticism could be heard that the pressures on the government are ineffective and no progress has been made in the fight for greater media freedom and freedom of expression
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06. nov 2015.
I do not respond to the questions of workers of “Informer”, only journalists
After the first announcement of a feuilleton series on the financing of KRIK, BIRN and CINS, which have been declared in a warrant as organisations with “wrongful intent”, foreign mercenaries who want to provoke chaos and overthrow the government, the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia refused to answer the questions of…
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19. okt 2015.
Brankica Stanković on the price of seeking the truth: I’ll spend my whole life looking over my shoulder on the street to see if anyone’s behind me
The author of TV show “Insajder” on the new portal she is putting together, responsible journalism and her biggest success – Insajder, and maintaining the team that created it; on what six years of police protection feels like and why she doesn’t go out anywhere anymore; on the disgraceful release of the biggest football hooligans;…
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19. avg 2015.
Political Propaganda on TV Prva: Superminister Vučić’s Sysyphean Day
If it’s true, as a journalist insisted, that “A Day with the Prime Minister” is about a “usual working day,” one has to wonder whether TV Prva, using national channel, is trying to say that the Prime Minister really solves every problem in Serbia every single day.
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17. jul 2015.
Belgrade Press on the Attack on the Prime Minister: The Tribulation of Vučić the Peacemaker
While the prime minister extends his hand of reconciliation to the Bosniaks, the media he controls refer to them as butchers, killers and extremists. The image representing Vučić to the world as a peaceful politician stands in stark contrast to the messages by which the media, using hate speech, form the domestic public opinion
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10. jul 2015.
Reporting on Srebrenica, July ’95: Independent Media Could Not Believe It, Pro-Government Ones Glorified War Criminals
TV Belgrade News did not contain any footage from the battlefields, and majority of Serbian media did not pose any questions or investigated what had been going on in the war zone during the “conquest” of the UN safe area. For them, Srebrenica was just another episode of the war in which victims are taken…
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05. jun 2015.
We Knew the Murderers’ Identities From the Beginning, But Now We Can Prove It
Why weren’t they able to collect evidence until 2014? What were the turning points in their investigation? Why does he trust Milorad Ulemek? Whom else does he expect to see in the witness stand during the trial? What has the Serbian Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists managed to accomplish? These are some…
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01. jun 2015.
There Will Be Many Trial Obstruction Attempts
For the occasion of start of trial to the accused of Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder, the President of the Journalists Murders Investigation Committee Veran Matić speaks of missed opportunities to solve this murder in the last 16 years, how the Committee brought to life the halted investigation, the good cooperation with the Security Information Agency (BIA)…