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The Last Issue of the Newsletter
No. 42
November 10-23, 2012
| State-owned media will continue receiving support from the national budget in 2013 – SBB is criticized – SBB begins broadcasting TV Pink 2 – Legal treatment of libel causes controversy – Full freedom of the media is one of three conditions imposed by EU on Serbia – Media coalition protests against moves made by the City Council of Nis – The media is one of the participants in political conflicts, says J. Matic – V. Obradovic: “Serbian media scene is in a state of controlled chaos” – “The War of Tabloids” is an attempt to remove the editor of Blic from his position – B. Kostic accuses RTV Belgrade and RTV Novi Sad of being accomplices in the crimes committed in Vukovar in 1991 – Tabloidization in Serbia is specific – D. Kesic criticizes domestic media – The state expands its ownership in the media, RRA waits for “integrated opinion” – Tijanic refuses to show contracts with Multicom Group and Direct Media – Prime Minister Dacic criticizes Tijanic – Some of RTS journalists begin strike – NUNS says the strike is legitimate – RTS management is opposed to the strike – Sinisa Kovacevic condemns RTS and its journalists – RTS journalists respond to Kovacevic – Criticism of Kovacevic's statement spreads – Members of the tennis representation have not apologized to journalists – Court rejects Tijanic's lawsuit because public personalities should tolerate public criticism – SEEMO is opposed to criminal treatment of libel – Attacks on Tanja Jankovic continue – Employees of Nas Glas support their director and demand his release from custody – Court of Appeals decides that M. Stojanovic did not commit libel against the prosecutor – Jugoslav Cosic says that the editor-in-chief of Informer contacted the criminal organization 'The Zemun Clan' before the assassination of Zoran Djinjic – Informer immediately denies the accusation – Cosic is questioned by the police – Rights of journalists are violated even when court decides in their favor – Media coalition demands immediate implementation of the strategy, not its redefining – Government of Vojvodina meets with national minorities to discuss improvement of the position of the minority media more  |
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| The Press Council completes its first year of existence – The Council issues a warning about the treatment of children in the media – RRA orders three TV stations to clearly label their reality programmes as fiction – After three weeks, Aleksandar Tijanic publishes his lecture to students, proving the media attacks on him were wrong – Awards are given to Somborac, Matic, Beleslin, Lazarevic, Jakovljev – UNICEF gives awards to journalists with Radio Zrenjanin, TV Pirot and the daily newspaper Press – Informer and Kurir attack research agencies, advertisers and competitors – Accusations come from all sides – Company Ringier Axel Springer Media AG will continue to defend European standards – Miskovic withdraws from ownership over Press – Press is closed down – Media professionals are disappointed because of the disappearance of Press – New members of the Monitoring Board of Novosti are appointed – B92 cancels the programme Daily Magazine as of 15 December – Theatrical newspaper Ludus celebrates 20 years of existence – Dnevnik celebrates seven decades of publication – Nina Media celebrates ten years in the market – ASMEDI hosts the general assembly of the European Newspaper Publishers Association – Milan Zdravkovic, Dobrivoje Urosevic and Gordana Divljak-Arok pass away more |
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| “High fees charged by SOKOJ and OFPS will result in closure of electronic media outlets” – Arne Konig points out the importance of media privatization – Miskovic gives his share in the daily newspaper Press to its editorial team – Vucic: “The government will not make deals with Miskovic” – Ljiljana Smajlovic calls on the state to regulate the media scene – Transparency Serbia says that it is important to know which media outlet is financed by whom – Press will continue publication in the Republic of Srpska and on the Internet – Rumors appear about possible re-launch of Press more |
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| NUNS demands that Petakov be pardoned – UNS criticizes the editorial team of Danas – Trade Union of RTV demands investigation of financial situation in the public service broadcaster – SINOS claims that closure of Press proves that the media is under direct control of the “political and economic lobby” – RRA has not been informed that its decisions have not been implemented – TV Avala has not filed a complaint against the decision by RRA to close down the station – NIN publishes data about enormous expenditure of money by RATEL on rental of business premises – Publishing company Color Press Group temporarily suspends its membership in the Media Association more |
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| San, a new daily newspaper, is launched – The process of digitalization in Serbia needs to be accelerated more |
The Media News Bulletin is edited by Marin and Goran Cetinic who can be contacted at goran.cetinic@gmail.com
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