
In the build up and during the course of the general elections in Serbia, which were held on 21st June, physical and verbal attacks against journalists were recorded, as well as intimidation and discrimination.
In almost every third funding contest for co-financing media content in 2019, the money was awarded to media that violated the Journalists' Code, once or on multiple occasions, according to research carried out by the Press Council.

Opting for a retrial and a new evidentiary procedure would be a paradox - to prove what has already been proven. In fact, the point would be for all first-instance convicts to remain at large, Veran Matic, Chairman of the Commission for investigating the killings of journalists, told Cenzolovka, reiterating that the deep state governed by elements of the secret services is very strong
An unknown man confiscated the mobile phone of Bojana Pavlović, a journalist of investigative journalism portal KRIK, after she took photographs of Danilo Vučić, the son of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, in a Belgrade cafe-bar where he was in the company of famous hooligan Aleksandar Vidojević, whom she'd already written about.

The Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists has again requested that the Special Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime take over responsibility for the case of the murder of journalist Milan Pantić, a correspondent of national daily newspaper Večernji novosti from the city of Jagodina, which occurred on 11th June 2001.

At the trial for the December 2018 arson attack on the house of journalist Milan Jovanović, the lawyers of the main defendant, Dragoljub Simonovic, a former president of the Belgrade suburban municipality of Grocka and a senior official of the ruling SNS party, questioned the journalist's wife Jela Deljanin in detail about the night the house burned down, but also about every item of furniture that she reported as being damaged in the fire.
More than 90 percent of the cases in world statistics say that the murder of a journalist is not solved, the murder is not punished, perpetrator is not brought to justice... Somehow, it turns out that killing a journalist is the cheapest form of censorship.

Nenad Živković, a journalist of local Pančevo-based portal 'Pancevo.city', has filed a second lawsuit against Radio-Television Pančevo and its chief editor Jasmina Petković, this time for a series of featuees aired on this television channel in which he was dubbed a “student spy” and “an agent for Ustasha confrontations with Serbia”.
Earlier this month, the latest Freedom House report on the state of democracy in former communist countries concluded that Serbia, together with Montenegro and Hungary, can no longer be regarded as a democracy.