The Media Council for Self-Regulation expresses serious concern regarding the final decision of the High Court for Misdemeanors in Bijelo Polje, which acquitted three adult defendants of responsibility for attacks and threats against journalists during reporting from Gornji Zaostro in August 2025.
The Media Council for Self-Regulation expresses serious concern about yesterday's summoning of the columnist Duško Kovačević to an informative interview with the police due to a published column and public criticism of state authorities, and warns that a pattern is increasingly being established in Montenegro in which the word of a journalist is viewed as a problem and not as the foundation of a democratic society.
The Media Council for Self-Regulation expresses serious concern regarding the statement of the director of the Police Administration, Lazar Šćepanović, who, during a guest appearance on the show, told journalist Petar Komnenić that "he will be prosecuted after this for the insult" and threatened him for using a stylistic figure with which he described the work of the institution.
The Media Council for Self-Regulation strongly condemns the statement of the director of the National Library "Stevan Samardžić", because messages like "be careful what you write" send a very bad and worrying message to the journalists and to the public.
The Media Council for Self-Regulation congratulates the media and the journalists on the Journalists' Day in Montenegro.
The Media Council for Self-Regulation (MSS) has been working on the implementation of the accreditation and certification program of media houses conducted by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in the framework of the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI).
