Other threats to journalists, Nevena Trgovčić, online, 19.6.2026.

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Other threats to journalists, Nevena Trgovčić, online, 19.6.2026.

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  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Zagreb
  • Who was attacked?
    Journalist
  • Gender
    Woman
  • Victim(s) name
    Nevena Trgovčić

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    podcast portala KulturIstra
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    19.06.2026
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was not reported to the authorities
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Known (suspected)
  • Attacked by
    By public official(s) and/or representative(s) of the executive power
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Posts or comments on social networks
  • Type of incident
    Other threats to journalists
  • Type of threat
    Other

  • Action by the authorities

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    Yes
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association reacted publicly

Journalist and member of the Istria Branch of the Croatian Journalists’ Association, Nevena Trgovčić, became the target of insults, hate speech and threats on social media over an interview she had conducted six months earlier in the KulturIstra portal’s podcast with Irena Boljunčić, the organiser of the International Street Wizards Festival in Istria. The campaign was triggered by a social media post published by Ivan Vidović, Most’s coordinator for Istria and a member of the Umag City Council, who selectively extracted excerpts from the old interview and presented them as alleged evidence of an ideological agenda that, in his view, should be opposed.

Following the post, a social media campaign was launched in which the journalist’s professional work was portrayed as part of the alleged ideological agenda. The post generated numerous comments containing hate speech, dehumanising language and calls for violence directed at the interviewee, while the journalist herself was subjected to public discrediting and accusations solely for conducting the interview.