"Journalists do not kneel, and the Prime Minister has to honour his promises!" Under this slogan, journalists demonstrated on Monday night throughout Serbia. Demonstrations were held in Belgrade, but also in Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac, Leskovac and Vranje, demanding the dismissal of the Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić, promised by Prime Minister Vučić.
This summer, the Serbian government launched the auction of 72 public media, mostly local ones. Only a handful have found buyers. For the others, this privatization under EU pressure marks the end of an era.
Is Serbia threatened by a "coup"? Sunday, the Interior Minister gave a press conference flanked by heavily armed police, while the Prime Minister subjected himself to the "lie detector" ...
For several months the refugee crisis has been dominating the Balkan media and had occupied the opening of all the news of the region. However, these hundreds of thousands of migrants have been used as pretext to revive old national quarrels and to serve political interests.
It was the largest press group in Southeast Europe, with 6000 employees, two newspapers, a sport daily, weeklies, correspondents worldwide. The bankruptcy of Vjesnik group is a symbol of the situation of media in Croatia.
In "The smile of freedom", the book published recently by the Croatian journalist Boris Pavelić, he examines the history of “Feral Tribune”, a satirical weekly that has resisted censorship in the 1990s before disappearing in 2008.
For 25 years, a different voice had resonated on the radio waves in Serbia. Radio B92, the Belgrade radio station well-known among the opponents of the Milošević regime in the 90s, has closed down last July 9th after a long process of privatization.
The European Union supports the controversial project by Vladimir Beba Popovic about women's rights, one year after his attacks against civil society and independent media.
The Croatian journalists Unions published a press release on the allarming deterioration of the working conditions of independent journalists in Croatian media.
