Broadcaster warns of “slow strangulation” of media plurality in Serbia
Cenzolovka 25.06.2019 | Beta
The owner of N1, one of the few remaining mainstream independent media outlets in Serbia, says media plurality in the EU accession candidate country is subject to “slow strangulation," the Beta news agency carried on Monday an interview intellinews.com had with Aleksandra Subotic, the United Group CEO.
The 24-hour news and current affairs platform owned by private equity-backed telecoms and media company United Group has documented numerous incidents of hate speech against its journalists, in which they are called “scum”, “traitors” and other derogatory terms, and threatened with explicit violence. It also reports physical intimidation of its reporters and obstruction of their work. Aleksandra Subotic, CEO of United Group’s content production
