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Pavel Stanchev is appointed CEO of Hungary's most watched television channel - TV2, Hungarian media reported. The Bulgarian was presented to the team in the middle of last week and will take up the post on May 15 this year.

"We are shocked and stunned about the message, that Jan Kuciak and his companion obviously have been the victim of a cruel assassination," the company said, adding:

The biggest threats to media pluralism in Serbia are the concentration of audience and political influence over the media, according to research conducted by BIRN and the German branch of Reporters Without Borders.

Antonela Riha, the editor of the political section at weekly news magazine NIN, was sacked on Thursday without prior warning, sparking opposition allegations that it was politically motivated.

The management of the Belgrade-based Ringier Foundation Axel Springer company, the publisher of the daily Blic Montenegro,  shut down the Podgorica edition of the newspaper after almost three years on the market due to financial problems.

Local media reported that the paper was shut down because it wasn't profitable. 

BELGRADE - The KKR Group, the owner of the biggest cable-television provider in Serbia -SBB, purchased on July 14 for EUR 180 million 49 percent of the shares in Ringier Digital AG, which owns the website of Belgrade-based daily Blic, websites Alo and 24sata, writes the Belgrade-based daily Informer.

BELGRADE – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that neither he nor the government was responsible for the recent removal of a blog from the website of the Belgrade-based Blic daily and shutting down of the radio show Pescanik’s website, stressing that the OSCE mission had not been telling the truth when it had warned about censorship in the country and he was waiting for the organi