Targeting Journalists in Serbia: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Threats, Intimidation and Resistance
This text is not a research report. Nor is it a lawsuit, although it could be. It is an attempt to understand what happened to me. And what is happening to the country in which I live.
Since March 2024, as a journalist and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, I have been the target of an organised persecution campaign. It was launched from the very top of the Serbian state, amplified through pro-regime media, and has never stopped. In this text, I trace that campaign from the inside: through the graffiti our children saw before me, through the panic button I carried for four months, through the institutions that chose silence.
Since March 2024, as a journalist and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, I have been the target of an organised persecution campaign. It was launched from the very top of the Serbian state, amplified through pro-regime media, and has never stopped. In this text, I trace that campaign from the inside: through the graffiti our children saw before me, through the panic button I carried for four months, through the institutions that chose silence.
Dinko Gruhonjić
Dinko Gruhonjić is Associate Professor of Journalism at the Department for Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He is also Programme Director of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV), Editor-in-Chief of the investigative portal VOICE, and a member of PEN Centre Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2024, he received the Human Rights Award of the City of Weimar. His research interests include media freedom, hybrid regimes, war crimes accountability journalism, and minority-language media in the Western Balkans.