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.
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20. nov 2019.
Independent Serbian TV channel subjected to smear campaigns, intimidation

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.
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06. okt 2019.
KRIK’s Journalist Family House Broken Into
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25. sep 2019.
Politicians who view journalists as enemies or security threats encourage attacks

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
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17. sep 2019.
Podcast – The war online: Abuse and harassment, and what journalists are doing about it (AUDIO)

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
English
12. sep 2019.
Serbian member of pro-Kremlin biker club under investigation for assaulting a female journalist
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09. jul 2019.
Coliver: Assange Shouldn’t Stand Trial in the United States; Snowden is a Hero
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09. jul 2019.
Coliver: How Trump has shaken up the system that in the U.S. guarantees full freedom of expression

The argument could be made that the system right now is out of balance; that our tradition of tolerance doesn’t quite know what to do with this new situation where the President makes statements that are inflammatory, says Sandra Coliver for Cenzolovka. Coliver is a world-renowned expert for freedom of media and expression, and in this interview, she talks about an extraordinary protections of speech in the U.S. guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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30. jun 2019.
Journalist followed and intimidated in front of her home and at work, only for a hacker attack to follow against the portal for which she writes
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30. jun 2019.
Politician continues lawsuits against journalist who was beaten last year
Dragoljub Simonovic, former president of the Belgrade suburban municipality of Grocka and an official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), has sued Željko Matorčević, editor of local portal Zig info, for a ninth time.
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30. jun 2019.
TV N1 files criminal charge against Belgrade’s deputy mayor for publishing an email

Lawyers of television company N1 have submitted a criminal complaint to the Higher Public Prosecution Office in Belgrade's Department for Combatting High-Tech Crime against Deputy Belgrade Mayor Goran Vesić, who they accuse of having committed the criminal act of violating the confidentiality of letters and other shipments.
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25. jun 2019.
Broadcaster warns of “slow strangulation” of media plurality in Serbia
The owner of N1, one of the few remaining mainstream independent media outlets in Serbia, says media plurality in the EU accession candidate country is subject to “slow strangulation," the Beta news agency carried on Monday an interview intellinews.com had with Aleksandra Subotic, the United Group CEO.
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17. jun 2019.
Freedom House: media freedom being suffocated in Serbia

Media companies in Serbia are finding it increasingly difficult to do their job, with journalists often dubbed “traitors” and “foreign mercenaries”, while President Aleksandar Vučić and the Serbian government are following in the footsteps of Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, according to the report “Freedom and the media: A Downward Spiral”. Freedom House also adds that there has been a noticeable decline in media freedom since Vučić came to power.
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17. jun 2019.
TV Pančevo continues witch hunt against local journalist Nenad Živković
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17. jun 2019.
Arson attack on car prompts journalist to announce withdrawal from engaging in journalism

Dušan Ostojić, a civic activist and editor of the portal aleksinac.net from Aleksinac, a town near Niš, said after his car was recently firebombed that he would almost certainly give up journalism, which he deals with as a hobby, because the message he received in the form of the burning of his car was completely clear to him.
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31. maj 2019.
Trial of arson attack on house of journalist Milan Jovanović commences
The trial against indictees accused of initiating, organising and participating in the firebombing of the Belgrade house of journalist Milan Jovanović has begun, five months after the journalist of local portal Žig info barely escaped the aforementioned fire alive.
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31. maj 2019.
Convicts in the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija remain under house arrest

The Belgrade Appellate Court has rejected an appeal submitted by the Office of the Prosecutor for Organised Crime calling for Ratko Romić and Milan Radonjić, both convicted in the first instance of murdering journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, to be remanded into prison instead of remaining under house arrest, with them now having been detained at home for almost two years.
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31. maj 2019.
European Commission: no progress on freedom of expression in Serbia
Serbia has not achieved progress on freedom of expression, although it is to some extent prepared for the EU in this area, and this lack of progress is now causing serious concerns, according to the European Commission's annual report for 2019 on Serbia's progress on the road to the EU.
English
15. maj 2019.
TV owner breaks 23-day hunger strike protest after grueling meeting in the Serbian government
English
15. maj 2019.
Tabloid witch hunt prompts journalists to turn to European Court of Human Rights

Journalists Tamara Skrozza, Antonela Riha and Vukašin Obradović, together with civil activist Ilir Gaši, filed a petition with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in response to the witch hunt campaign against them in media companies that are particularly pro-government – TV Pink and tabloid newspaper Informer.





