The Belated and Bedeviled Media Transition in Serbia

Serbia’s belated democratic transition as the last country to relinquish communism  – with the toppling of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 coming more than a decade after the other Eastern European countries had dumped communism – as well as the post-Milosevic authorities’ ambiguous attitudes in tackling challenges stemming from reforms, has to a great extent determined nationwide reforms of the media system itself.