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Caught between the East And West: The “Media War” Intensifies In Serbia and Montenegro

By Marija Šajkaš and Milka Tadić Mijović Article re-published from the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) with permission 10 March 2016 As EU and U.S. assistance to...

Between bad working conditions and redundancy

By Bojana Barlovac This story delves into the grim situation of Serbian media workers, showing that nothing, not even a contract, can protect them from...

New calls for nominations for EU investigative journalism awards open in March

The 2016 calls for nominations within regional scheme of EU awards for investigative journalism in the Western Balkans and Turkey are being announced during...

Serbia: New Call for EU Investigative Journalism Award Launched

On March 8, 2016 a new call for EU investigative journalism award was launched. Investigative stories published between 1 January – 31 December 2015...

Serbia: Media Monitoring of Public Service Broadcasters 2015/2016

The new Law on Public Service Broadcasting (2014) requires that the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) and Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV), as the...

Serbia: Silence Over Anti-Corruption Council’s Report on State Advertising

The Anti-Corruption Council of the Government of Serbia, an advisory body, published in December 2015 the findings of yet another probe into key media...

Media Integrity Matters – Book of the SEE Media Observatory

“Media integrity matters – Reclaiming public service values in media and journalism” is a book published in May 2014 comprising research reports of the...

Media Integrity Matters: Monitoring the Implementation of New Media Legislation In Serbia – Media Privatization

In the course of 2015 Novi Sad School of Journalism, a SEENPM member, followed the process of ownership transformation of Serbian media, especially the...

Serbia monitoring report: Privatisation of minority language media in Serbia: Liberation or disappearance?

According to the 2014 Law on Public Information and Media, the remaining state-owned media in Serbia should be privatised by 1 July 2015. However,...

Serbia monitoring report: Public service broadcasters are (not) in the service of citizens

The Law on Public Service Broadcasting (2014) in Serbia clearly defines the public interest that must be equally served by both public service broadcasters...

Media landscape in Serbia in 2015

By Stefan Janjić Serbia fell considerably in 2015 on the Reporters Without Borders list of media freedoms, primarily due to attacks on journalists, threats to...

Serbia sacks Minister of Defense for sexists remarks

The Minister of Defense in Serbia, Bratislav Gasic, was finally sacked following months of protests for his offensive remarks made towards a female journalist from B92 Television...
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Alongside the rise of new technologies and the evolving global conditions in the media industry, journalism and media in Serbia will face...