Employees from Nova.rs, N1, TV Nova, Danas, Radar, and Forbes Serbia will hold a joint protest rally on Tuesday at 7 pm outside the Nova.rs headquarters at 8a Zoran Djindjic Boulevard in Belgrade, in a fight to preserve these media outlets as you know them.
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The media staff are calling on members of the public to join them and show solidarity in the ongoing fight for press freedom. Our protest will be backed by regional colleagues from Croatia, Slovenia, and Montenegro, representing various media unions and journalist associations.
This follow-up rally comes on the heels of last week’s protest by Nova.rs staff, which drew widespread support from fellow journalists, members of the public, athletes, artists, and students.
The protest was triggered after new management issued a 48-hour ultimatum, forcing the staff to either accept the newly appointed editor-in-chief, Marko Stjepanovic - whom the newsroom has rejected - or take a severance package and quit.
The latest information obtained by the Nova.rs portal is an unofficial confirmation from multiple mutually independent sources that the new management could drastically restrict access to the site’s content management system.
According to these sources, the plan would strip journalists and current editors of their ability to publish articles independently, centralizing publishing rights exclusively under editors brought in by the new management team.
Nova.rs editors and staff are deeply alarmed by the logistics of this move, noting that such system restrictions would require the direct cooperation of United Cloud. United Cloud is the United Group subsidiary tasked with maintaining the content management system, giving them full access to all our accounts.
This coordination effectively makes the management teams at United Cloud and United Group directly complicit in stifling press freedom - just 10 days before the upcoming elections in Serbia.
Teme