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Media association warns of pressures on Nova.rs ahead of Serbia’s elections

ANEM says staffing and commercial moves at the portal form part of efforts to tighten control over critical outlets before the 25 October vote

Vučić received 78 percent of airtime devoted to political actors on five television stations

The former President and SNS together accounted for 90.5% of the recorded time, while the Students’ List accounted for about 6.2%

Serbia orders expulsion of Italian journalist who reported on media freedom

Media organisations rally behind Massimo Moratti, who has worked in the Western Balkans for more than 20 years

Serbian ruling party leadership unanimously names Vučić candidate for Prime Minister

President accuses foreign intelligence of driving Serbia’s student unrest

Pedro Vargas David’s Alpac Capital moves to take control of Serbia’s leading independent media 

Registration as director of N1, Nova S and other United Group outlets deepens fears of political influence over the country’s last critical newsrooms

How Orbán channelled millions into friendly media – and Western groups took their cut

Companies connected to the Swiss-German Ringier Axel Springer group or the RTL Group controlled by Bertelsmann participated in the public-money pipeline

EUalive stands with North Macedonia journalist Erol Rizaov against death threats

Criticism of political figures, government decisions and public statements forms an essential part of independent journalism

A journalist’s blunder that served Moscow well

Journalists who insert themselves so aggressively into the story they cover, as Michael Martens from FAZ did, do not serve their readers

San Marino’s closed circuit: when the same names recur and real questions stay unanswered

The Bacciocchi family’s thirteen-year ordeal and the Starcom “bank heist” expose the same pattern of unexamined claims and overlapping interests

Orbán’s media empire shrinks as state funding dries up

Mass layoffs, newspaper closures and cost-cutting sweep through Orbán-linked outlets after his electoral defeat

Broadcast of Serbia’s Informer TV banned in Montenegro

The six-month ban was imposed because of the channel’s repeated airing of content that insults the dignity of the Montenegrin people

Major media ownership shift in the Balkans raises concerns over press freedom and EU standards

One of the region’s last major independent media networks are reportedly on the verge of being sold to investors linked the group that acquired Euronews

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