N1 is a 24-hour cable

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launched on 30 October 2014. The channel has headquarters in

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and

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and covers events happening in

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and

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. Available on cable TV throughout former

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, N1 is

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's local broadcast partner and affiliate via an agreement with the

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-based

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. As it is focused on the audiences of the three countries in which it is headquartered, it has three separate editorial policies, separate reporters, TV studios as well as internet and mobile platforms. In cases where news overlaps, it is presented jointly.

Serbia

The

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(OSCE) and Pauline Adès-Mével, a representative of

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, described ''N1'' as “the only big independent television station in Serbia”. Workers have been constantly labeled as “traitors” and “foreign mercenaries” and received hundreds of insults and threats of physical violence through social media. Unidentified individuals sent a letter to the station on 4 February 2019 threatening to kill its journalists and their families and blow up its offices. After Vučić was hospitalized with cardiovascular problems in November 2019, his associates and pro-regime media accused the ''N1'' journalist Miodrag Sovilj of aggravating the President's health by probing allegations of corruption by government ministers. The

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's platform on journalist safety warns about a lack of state response to intimidation, threats and a

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against Sovilj. The representative of Reporters Without Borders expressed concern about attacks faced by the Station’s executive director, as well as about the distribution of leaflets advising ''N1'' to leave Serbia and threats made via social networks. In January 2020, the

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associated itself with the ''Independent Association of Serbia’s Journalists'' in supporting ''N1.'' It stated that it viewed the state-owned cable operator’s decision to drop ''N1'' as an attempt to shut down critical discourse in Serbia. Parallel to the dispute between

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and cable operator, Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Reporters Without Borders both expressed concern over

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s on ''N1''’s Serbian web portal and mobile app.

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