{"id":10217,"date":"2025-05-19T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:34:02","slug":"new-sackings-of-pro-government-media-journalists-over-support-for-student-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/new-sackings-of-pro-government-media-journalists-over-support-for-student-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"New sackings of pro-government media journalists over support for student protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 2025<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Sandra Gucijan, deputy editor-in-chief of the print edition of pro-government daily newspaper Politika, and Dorotea \u010carni\u0107, editor of Politika\u2019s \u201cchronicle\u201d feature, have been declared \u201credundant\u201d after expressing their support for the student protests against corruption on social media.<\/h2>\n<p>Gucijan and \u010carni\u0107 have confirmed that they are departing Politika and announced that they will consequently initiate legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Similar sackings were recently made at pro-government tabloid newspaper Ve\u010dernje Novosti, where two female journalists were fired after posting on social media their own photos from the student protests. The reason given for the sackings was similar to the Politika case \u2013 attributed to \u201ctechnological changes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Previously state-owned newspapers Politika and Ve\u010dernje Novosti today have the same owner: Boban Raji\u0107. Raji\u0107 has close ties to figures at the top of the Serbian government.<\/p>\n<p>The same reasons have also resulted in the sacking of the editor of Elle Serbia\u2019s web portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 2025 Sandra Gucijan, deputy editor-in-chief of the print edition of pro-government daily newspaper Politika, and Dorotea \u010carni\u0107, editor of Politika\u2019s \u201cchronicle\u201d feature, have been declared \u201credundant\u201d after expressing their support for the student protests against corruption on social media. Gucijan and \u010carni\u0107 have confirmed that they are departing Politika and announced that they will consequently initiate legal proceedings. Similar sackings were recently made at pro-government tabloid newspaper Ve\u010dernje Novosti, where two female journalists were fired after posting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New sackings of pro-government media journalists over support for student protests<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/new-sackings-of-pro-government-media-journalists-over-support-for-student-protests\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New sackings of pro-government media journalists over support for student protests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"May 19, 2025 Sandra Gucijan, deputy editor-in-chief of the print edition of pro-government daily newspaper Politika, and Dorotea \u010carni\u0107, editor of Politika\u2019s \u201cchronicle\u201d feature, have been declared \u201credundant\u201d after expressing their support for the student protests against corruption on social media. 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