The Belgrade Court of Appeal upheld the ruling issued last December against the site E-Novine, found guilty of defaming the Montenegrin journalist Milka Tadić-Mijović. E-Novine, an online tabloid, ceased publication on 22 July.
"Uncensored Lies", the exhibition organized by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Prime Minister Vučić, brings together several thousand articles ... hostile to those in power. The goal: to show that the press is free in Serbia. But the effect is opposite to that expected.
Hundreds of people, including many journalists, gathered Thursday night in Zagreb, denouncing political dismissals and the elimination of many programs of public broadcasting (HRT), the cultural programs of the third string.
The montenegrian government wants to shed light on the murder of Duško Jovanović. The people behind the murder of the opposition journalist Duško Jovanović are still running free, but the authorities have just proposed a reward for new information.
BHRT, the national TV channel, risks suspending its programming from June 30th, as a consequence of financial difficulties and the government's inability to adopt an effective reform of the public broadcasting system. Bosnia and Herzegovina is at risk of becoming the only Europe country without a national television.
For several months, after the vote on the new media law, it is ongoing a real cleansing that involves the local radio and television stations of Vojvodina. All the local media, privatized one by one, are coming under control of some businessmen close to the ruling party
All editors of information of the public broadcasting in Vojvodina (RTV) were removed from their positions without explanation on Wednesday 18th May, after the resignation of the general manager and of the program director. They will all be replaced by "faithful" journalists who held these positions in the 1990s.
To get a good job at the Croatian Radio-Television (HRT), it is better to take the membership card of the Croatian Society of Journalists and publicists (HniP), the conservative press association that never hides its pro-ustaša sympathies.
