Istorijski sunovrat Srbije: 104. mesto na Svetskom indeksu medijskih sloboda, 45 niže nego 2016. 
Novinar Miljko Stojanović: Bojim se da ću biti prinuđen da tražim azil 
Prezir i mržnja prema novinarima N1: Sve je teže izveštavati sa skupova SNS 
Salaj: Srbija se sve više udaljava od Evrope, odgovornost za istorijski pad na Vučiću 
Novinarka KRIK-a: Nismo ni za šta optužili Jelenu Tanasković 
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.
IPI backs latest call for Special Prosecutor's Office to take over case
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.
Next month will see the Appellate Court in Belgrade launch the process of considering appeals against the first-instance verdict for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija.
A criminal charge has been filed with the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against an as-yet-unnamed person due to the harassing of TV N1 journalist Dušan Mlađenović.
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”.
Jovana Gligorijević, assistant editor-in-chief of weekly news magazine Vreme, has been threatened via Instagram by an unknown individual, who described her as: “Human waste and the dregs of society” warning that “payment day is near”, which the journalist reported to the prosecution service.
The Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation has filed a complaint with the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media, REM, against cable channel TV Kopernikus in response to its broadcasting of a show authored by MP and ruling Serbian Progressive Party official Vladimir Đukanović.
A Freedom House report has criticised the state of media freedom in Serbia, with the Serbian Government responding by criticising the report of Freedom House.
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.
The social media giant last month shut down networks of accounts posting in Serbian, Bosnian and Hungarian, originating from Russia and Iran that aimed to manipulate the public, its April report says.
On April 1, Serbian police arrested Ana Lalić, a reporter for news website Nova.rs, just hours after she published a report on chaotic conditions in a local hospital.
The Council of Europe (CoE) said in its annual press freedom report that the number of attacks on media, including death threats, is on the rise in Serbia, adding that “inflammatory rhetoric often comes from public officials”.
Some governments, as well as other actors, abuse the sanitary emergency to violate press freedom. Their actions range from repressive laws, allowing arbitrary prosecutions, to hate campaigns against critical journalists, says Pavol Szalai, a new Head of European Union & Balkans Desk of Reporters Without Borders.
Journalists must be able to cover pandemic without fear of arrest, IPI says
Recent changes made in Serbia’s regulatory body for electronic media appear to be only cosmetic and designed to satisfy international officials while not really changing anything essential in the media landscape, media expert Smiljana Milinkov told N1 on Sunday.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Serbian government to stop supporting and instead publicly condemn attempts to intimidate N1, Serbia’s only major independent TV channel, whose journalists have been subjected to repeated, systematic defamatory attacks by the government and pro-government media in recent weeks.
The family house of KRIK’s journalist Milica Vojinovic was broken into while she and her family were abroad. Her cousin found a ransacked home today. The case will be reported to the police and to a group for journalists’ safety.
Populists emphasize domestic isolationism and security over all else, including and especially freedom of the media and expression. This framing puts our safety and our freedoms at odds, when actually, we can't have one without the other, and positions journalists and media workers as a threat to that safety, says Jennifer Adams, international expert focused on protection of female journalists on the Internet
Journalists are increasingly the target of insults or threats from individuals or groups online, which can have physical impacts and should no longer be seen as separate from the offline world. The goal of the harassment? Censorship. And women bear the brunt of the abuse, which is usually gendered and sexualised. In this episode: Ceyda Karan, Turkish journalist, Marija Vucic, Serbian journalist with KRIK Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, Nighat Dad, lawyer, founder of the Digital Rights Foundation in Pakistan, and Viktorya Vilk, manager of special projects, Free Expression Programmes, PEN America
