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On 3 July, the Belgian Competition Authority (Autorité belge de la Concurrence or ABC) conditionally authorised the takeover of the IPM media group – publisher of the daily newspapers “La...

On 5 July, three journalists were detained in a new wave of countrywide police raids in Türkiye ahead of the NATO summit, which starts on 7 July. The International and...

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) said on Tuesday that almost 90 new media outlets have been registered with the Serbian Business Registers Agency (APR) this year.   A...

A Montenegrin journalist was banned from entering Serbia on Monday and was put on a flight back to Podgorica just days after the same thing happened to a Vijesti TV...

On 3 July, 2026, a forensic analysis by the Citizen Lab revealed that Stelios Kouloglou, former Member of the European Parliament and investigative journalist, was targeted and infected with Pegasus...

Mexico City, July 4, 2026 — Mexican authorities must credibly and transparently investigate the killing of journalist Roxana Berenice Guzmán Rodríguez, determine whether her abduction and killing were related to...

Serbia’s parliament has again turned its attention to the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, REM, more than six months after the process of forming its council stalled.   A parliamentary...

Political scientist Jovanka Matic said the latest developments surrounding the formation of Serbia’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, REM, repeat patterns seen more than 20 years ago.   Commenting on...

The current leadership of Adria News Network (ANN), under which N1 and Nova S operate, has neither approved nor announced any changes that would merge the two channels’ programming, ANN...

The imprisonment of Yıldız Tar, a journalist who has worked for many years on human rights, LGBTI+ rights and freedom of expression, deepens concerns over the use of criminal investigations...

Vijesti TV journalist Petar Komnenic has been banned from entering Serbia in what looks like a tit-for-tat response by official Belgrade to Podgorica’s ban on a pro-regime tabloid owner.  ...

Serbia has been identified as a high-risk country for media pluralism and media freedom, with an overall risk level of 74 percent, according to the Media Pluralism Monitor 2026 (MPM...