N1 is a 24-hour cable news channel launched on 30 October 2014. The channel has headquarters in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb and covers events in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Available on cable TV throughout former Yugoslavia, N1 is CNN International's local broadcast partner and affiliate via an agreement with the London-based Turner Broadcasting System Europe. 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 overlap, information is presented jointly.
Serbia
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Pauline Adès-Mével, a representative of the Reporters Without Borders, described N1 as “the only big independent television 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. TV station received a letter on 4 February 2019 threatening to kill the journalists and their families and to blow upthe office. After Vučić was hospitalized for cardiovascular problems in November 2019, his associates and pro-regime media accused the N1 journalists Miodrag Sovilj of worsening the president's health by asking questions about alleged corruption by government ministers. The Council of Europe's platform on journalist safety warns about a lack of state reaction after intimidation, threats and smear campaign against Sovilj. The representative of the Reporters Without Borders expressed concern about the attack on N1 director, as well as the leaflets with a message to N1 to leave Serbia and the threats via social networks. In January 2020, the European Federation of Journalists said they joined the Independent Association of Serbia’s Journalists in supporting N1, described they saw the state-owned cable operators' decision to drop N1 as an attempt to shut down a critical view in Serbia. Parallel to the dispute between the United Group and cable operator, Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, and the Reporters Without Borders expressed concern over the cyberattacks on the N1web portal and mobile app in Serbia.
