Media in Serbia

A quarter of a century since the first Pride in Serbia

07.July 2026 Dejana Cvetković

First Pride: "Fight" and nothing more?

25 years ago, the first "revolutionary" Pride was organized. It ended with great violence for which no one was held accountable until the end. That's what the majority of the media reports on, and they didn't make a name for themselves in reporting on the LGBT+ community either

Media in Serbia

02.June 2026 Anja Mihic

Why Serbian businessmen market and establish media

Political reasons are mostly hidden behind the purchase of media in Serbia, and old acquaintances and influences are often behind the new owners. "Our portal" is no exception

Hungarian community in Serbia

06.May 2026. A.M.

Did Balint Pastor admit that the Union of Vojvodina Hungarians controls the media

The Democratic Union of Vojvodina Hungarians (DZVM) is "shocked" by the statement of the president of the Union of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) Balint Pastor about the influence of the SVM on the media, evaluating it as unacceptable

This situation

09.April 2026. Philip Schwarm

Sadler's saddle for N1, Nova and others

What did Brent Sadler promise Igor Božić, and what happened? Why can the strike on United Media be considered an operation under the code name "A Thousand Cuts"? Is there anything worse for any newsroom than to become the news itself? What questions are not answered by the new management of this media group and why? On whom colleagues from United Media can rely in the defense of journalistic freedom

OSCE research

03.April 2026. Isidora Ceric

Media literacy in Serbia: Sadness, anger, shame, disgust and fear

Television is the dominant medium in Serbia, watched by 96,7 percent of respondents, but only 36,9 percent consider it a credible source of information. As many as 77,4 percent of citizens never read the press, while only 1,3 percent follow it daily. Which media do citizens trust, how do they influence them and do they manage to recognize harmful content

Media in Serbia

01.April 2026. KS

Solidarity protest with journalists attacked during local elections

Protest of solidarity with journalists at the Presidency of Serbia, gathering also in the so-called Ćaciland

Mediji

11.march 2026 KS

New magazine "Kompas": All the best about the president

In addition to the two existing portals of the same name, the weekly "Kompas", which promises "analysis and understanding of social processes", is now arriving on newsstands. From the announcement of the first issue, one can already guess which side it will take

United media production has three new directors - Vladica Tintor, Gibber Shrojen and Tim Pennington.

Media turbulence

29.August 2025 KS

Who's who and what's what in the United group

United Group is going through a real storm - from the sale of key companies and multi-million dollar transactions, through dramatic changes at the top, all the way to alleged pressures from the political leadership of Serbia. Who's who in this company

Mediji

09.July 2025 KS

Serbia ranks fourth in Europe in the number of attacks on journalists

Serbia ranks fourth in Europe in terms of the number of attacks on journalists, behind Ukraine, Russia and Turkey, according to the report on media pluralism in Serbia by the European University Institute.

Media scene

25.June 2025 Slobodan Georgijev

The fight for the survival of journalism

Thirteen years after the progressives came to power, the media in Serbia found themselves at a crossroads: one way is complete destruction and disappearance, and the other is to survive on the devices until they are turned off because they are financially dependent on donor aid from abroad. Discussions that take place behind closed doors look more like "arm wringing" than a friendly discussion of those who understand the importance of professional media for any free society.

Media in Serbia

17.June 2025 RV

Reuters-Oxford survey: Audience trusts "Time"

The weekly "Vreme" is among the media in Serbia that the audience trusts the most, according to the research by Reuters and Oxford "Digital News Report 2025". "Vreme" also stands out in that the fewest respondents express distrust

Mediji

02.April 2025. KS

The sale of SBB has been completed, and Total TV has a new owner

New tumbling in the media market of Serbia. The transfer of SBB to new ownership was completed, and Total TV was also sold to Telekom Srbija

New issue of "Vremena"

19.February 2025. KS

"Telecom has become the biggest media monopolist in Europe"

The media market is already dark, and it can become even blacker if N1 and Nova S disappear in their current form, says Rade Veljanovski for "Vreme".

"By including nine new proposers in the vote on candidates for the REM Council, the expert service of the Serbian Parliament grossly violated the law and the credibility of the process," Citizen Initiatives pointed out.

Election of REM Council members

23.January 2025 KS

Council of REM in the service of government: How credible are the proposed candidates

Public discussions with candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) are underway, and the profession indicates that the proposed candidates are not competent

Protests in Serbia and the media

15.January 2025 KS

"Žeželj called her" - Dismissal of a journalist because of an article about students?

Is supporting the student protests and writing about it a reason for the dismissal of the editors of the Serbian edition of the magazine "Elle"? The publisher says that the decision to cancel was made based on a regular analysis of business results and the decline in business parameters

The Informer case

04.December 2024 Slobodan Georgijev

Special Media Operations Unit

Vučićević poured all the "content" that he established in his newspaper into the TV airwaves: a row of screams, a row of scandals, a row of fabrications, a row of the most heinous insults and a row of praises at the expense of the great leader and his friend Vučić... In the latest "edition", after tragedy in Novi Sad and the events that followed, a special "language" and special messages were prepared: on the streets are "Đilas hooligans", Ustaše, anti-Serbs, haters of everything Serbian, destroyers of national property

Side effects

04.December 2024 Teofil Pančić

Dosmanlian blues

If there is an aspect of the "Saber" series that is almost radically subversive towards the ruling political narrative of today, then it is precisely the depiction of the media landscape of Serbia from the very beginning of the century.

Media scene

20.October 2023 MN

Aleksandar Stanković: Journalism in Serbia is more brutal than in Croatia

"As far as I can see on the Serbian market, some of the most famous televisions use people with mental disorders, or who are in a difficult social situation, in order to increase the viewership"

Mediji

15.march 2023 S.Ć.

ARD: Western companies advertise in Serbian pro-Russian media

The German state television ARD states that many Serbian media outlets are pro-Russian and at the same time advertise Western companies. Companies from the EU, USA or Switzerland participate in the total funding through advertising with 63 percent, from Germany with almost 10 percent, and companies from Russia with barely 0,1 percent.

Mediji

06.December 2022 S.Ć.

Aleksandar Vučić: The tycoon televisions N1 and Nova S darkened their channels themselves

The President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić said today in Tirana that no one blacked out the screens of the cable televisions N1 and Nova S, if they had done it themselves they would not have created the impression that there is no free media in Serbia

Analyze

06.December 2022 Andrei Ivanji

Media eclipse: Good night Serbia

The interruption of the programs of television N1 and Nova S made me think how the image of Serbia would look if there were no critical media at all: rosy and single-minded as in the most beautiful progressive utopia that was briefly alive in the Serbian Parliament when the opposition left it

Mediji

06.December 2022 A.I

TV Nova S and N1: Complete interruption of programs in Serbia

Anyone who wanted to watch the morning program on Nova S and N1 television this morning ran into a black screen that read: darkness in Serbia without free media. Without any further explanation

Mediji

23.November 2022 Prepared by: M. Pantić

How to survive and save your soul

The forum "Innovations in the Media", held in Novi Sad in the organization of the Association of Media, tried to answer the questions: how to adapt to new circumstances, how to make money and survive, and engage in journalism honestly and professionally. Slađana Gluščević, editor-in-chief of "Agrosmart" spoke at the forum; Nataša Heror, director of the media agency "Media Point" and editor of the bilingual portal "Storyteller" by Vladimir Dorčov Valtnerov. The forum was broadcast live on the Facebook page of NDNV

From a personal point of view - What I told the students

07.November 2012 Aleksandar Tijanic

The first lesson in journalism

Tabloid politics inevitably gives birth to tabloid economics, then tabloid art, then tabloid journalism, and, finally, tabloid life with ten hours of daily stupefying television programming.