June 7, 2017 Forty local civil society representatives attended two workshops in Belgrade in May as part of the “Public money for public interest” project, which is being implemented by BIRN Serbia in cooperation with the Independent Association of Journalists...
May 31, 2017 After being sacked as defence minister following sexist comments directed towards a female journalist, Bratislav Gašić, a senior official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, has returned to public office – having been appointed as the new...
May 17, 2017 During early May, national television channel Happy’s reality programme Parovi (Couples) showed live sexual relations between two participants, with the girl, in a drunken state, constantly trying to reject the man. Everything happened under bedcovers, while the...
May 3, 2017 World Press Freedom Day is marked around the world on 3rd May, but the latest 2016 report of Reporters Without Borders notes that press freedom is declining around the world, including in Serbia, which has slipped six...
April 18, 2017 The 18th anniversary of the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, owner and editor of newspapers Dnevni telegraf and Evropljanin, has been marked at the site where he was shot down on 11th April 1999. The indictment, which defined...
April 1, 2017 The last day of campaigning ahead of Serbia’s presidential elections, to be held on Sunday, saw the entire front pages of almost every daily newspaper feature the advert of ruling coalition candidate Aleksandar Vučić. The front pages...
