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Mediji

22.February 2026. KS

New portal of the old structure: "Strength of the South" eleventh media of the same Novi Sad company

On February 20, the "Strength of the South" portal was entered into the Media Register, the latest in a series of sites launched by Zaple Media Group since the beginning of the year. Like other portals from the same production, this one shares the same editor-in-chief, while the information about the editorial office and the publisher are not clearly highlighted.

Regime media

06.February 2026. KS

Orchestrated attacks on Veran Matić: "Hell is coming"

How and why is the government brutally targeting Veran Matić through films and newly established media. "It's a pattern. Hell is coming," the president of ANEM's Board of Directors told "Vreme".

Mediji

04.February 2026. KS

The invasion of new media with a centralized editorial policy

The same owner, the same editor-in-chief, unknown journalists - who and why is massively establishing portals across Serbia

Prosthetic media

02.February 2026. MLJ

Informatization of Western Serbia: How the regime manipulates the local media for the elections

How the regime's tabloids are branching out and organizing in western Serbia, in order to spread pro-regime propaganda before the local elections and deal with the opponents of the Serbian Progressive Party

Media image of Serbia

19.January 2026 Katarina Stevanović

Local media spring up before the elections: Same company, same editor, same day of registration

The same owner, the same editor, the same propaganda - three new pro-regime local portals were simultaneously established in several places where local elections are being held this year.

Mediji

10.January 2026 KS

Three new local media, the boss of the Trabant regime

Three new media were registered on the same day, with the same ownership structure and the same editor, and will cover different local governments in Serbia. Their editor-in-chief is also a member of the Center for Social Stability, the organization that makes propaganda films for SNS and that organized anti-blockades

The fight for truth

25.August 2025 Jelena Djukic-Pejic / DW

Local media in Serbia: "Here the mayor decides who will have advertisements"

In places where "everyone knows everything", local journalists in Serbia face threats, blackmail and financial pressure every day

Interview: Verica Marinčić, editor of In Media

21.August 2025 Jelena Jorgacevic

I look into the eyes of those who threaten me

"The moment the canopy fell and everything started to unfold, we held a editorial meeting and agreed: this time we have to choose a side. I was involved in sports journalism, I always passionately supported 'Partizan' and I never showed sympathy on the field. However, this is a situation - the most difficult in my twenty years of journalism - in which you have to make a clear decision. We cannot support or mitigate what is happening to the citizens of this country."

Challenges of working in local media

08.August 2024 Milica Mihajlović

Uncertainty of project co-financing, self-censorship and pressures

As many as 85 percent of local media members of the Association of Local and Independent Media "Local Press" confirmed the existence of violations of the freedom and rights of the media, i.e. journalists, according to the latest Research on Pressures on Local Media (2022 - 2024), conducted by Local Press