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U oktobru je Dragoljub Simonović počeo da izdržava zatvorsku kaznu na koju je osuđen zbog paljenja kuće Milana Jovanovića, novinara portala Žig Info. Doneta je prvostepena presuda zbog lepljenja „poternice“ za novinarkom Isidorom Kovačević, glavnom urednicom medija Podrinjske. Automobil Nevenke Medić, direktorke izdavača informativnog portala i medijske agencije KoSSev, bio je oštećen. Ljubomir Stefanović, autor YouTube kanala Slavija Info, javnost je upoznao sa tim da je presretnut i, u pratnji više lica, neosnovano odveden na razgovor u prostorije BIA. Nenadu Kulačinu, koautoru emisije ,,Dobar, loš, zao”, opet je stigla preteća poruka…

U Monitoringu medijske scene obrađeni su ključni uvidi do kojih se došlo na osnovu statistike Vrhovnog javnog tužilaštva o razlici kad je reč o broju oštećenih novinara i novinarki. Nastavilo se sa pomenom godišnjica smrti novinara ubijenih na Kosovu kasnih 90-ih i ranih 2000-ih godina. U svetlu sprovedene javne rasprave o Nacrtu zakona o izmenama i dopunama Zakona o oglašavanju, ukazano je na, po oceni medijskih udruženja, ključna pitanja koja bi Zakonom trebalo da budu uređena, a kojima se Nacrt zakona nije bavio. Projektno sufinansiranje takođe je bilo tema, a sa njim i nalaz Udruženja novinara Srbije da je za sufinansiranje projekata proizvodnje medijskih sadržaja iz oblasti javnog informisanja izdvojeno skoro 600 miliona dinara manje nego prethodne godine. 

U Monitoringu je, osim navedenog, bilo reči i o zabrinutosti koju je izrazila organizacija „The Media Freedom Rapid Response“ zbog pravnih pritisaka sa kojima se suočavaju novinari portala KRIK, naročito imajući u vidu krivični postupak koji se protiv Stevana Dojčinovića i Bojane Pavlović vodi po tužbi sudije Dušanke Đorđević i njenog supruga advokata, a u kom se za novinare zahtevaju zatvorske kazne i zabrana bavljenja novinarstvom.

O svemu tome možete pročitati u Monitoringu medijske scene u Srbiji za oktobar 2024. godine.

Ova publikacija objavljena je uz finansijsku pomoć Evropske unije i Ministarstva informisanja i telekomunikacija Republike Srbije. Za sadržinu ove publikacije isključivo je odgovorna Asocijacija nezavisnih elektronskih medija i ta sadržina nužno ne izražava zvanične stavove Evropske unije i Ministarstva informisanja i telekomunikacija.

Ovaj Monitoring izveštaj uradio je stručni monitoring tim iz advokatske kancelarije „Savović", u saradnji sa ANEM-om.

SERBIA'S MEDIA SCENE IN OCTOBER 2024

In October, Dragoljub Simonović began serving the prison sentence he was sentenced to for setting fire to the house of Milan Jovanović, a journalist from the Žig Info portal. A first-instance verdict was handed down for pasting a "wanted warrant" against journalist Isidora Kovačević, editor-in-chief of Podrinjske media. The car of Nevenka Medić, director of the publisher of the information portal and media agency KoSSev, was damaged. Ljubomir Stefanović, the author of the YouTube channel Slavija Info, informed the public that he was intercepted and, accompanied by several persons, unjustifiably taken to the premises of the BIA for an interview. Nenad Kulačin, co-author of "The Good, the Bad, the Evil" show, received a threatening message again...

In the Monitoring of the media scene, the key insights obtained based on the statistics of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office on the difference in the number of injured journalists were processed. The commemoration of the anniversaries of the deaths of journalists killed in Kosovo in the late 90s and early 2000s continued. In the light of the public debate on the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Advertising, key issues that should be regulated by the Law but the Draft Law did not deal with were pointed out by media associations. Project co-financing was also a topic, and with it the finding of the Association of Journalists of Serbia that almost 600 million dinars less than the previous year was allocated for the co-financing of media content production projects in the field of public information.

In addition to the above, Monitoring also discussed the concern expressed by the organization "The Media Freedom Rapid Response" due to the legal pressures faced by journalists of the KRIK portal, especially considering the criminal proceedings against Stevan Dojčinović and Bojana Pavlović initiated by judge Dušanka Đorđević and her lawyer husband, and in which prison sentences and a ban on practicing journalism are demanded for journalists.

You can read about all that in the Monitoring of the media scene in Serbia for October 2024.

Media monitoring was published with the financial support of the European Union and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication of the Republic of Serbia. The Association of Independent Electronic Media is solely responsible for its content, and that content in no way expresses the official views of the European Union and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication.

This Monitoring Report was prepared by expert monitoring team from the law office "Savović" in cooperation with ANEM.