The Beta News Agency (Serbian Cyrillic: Новинска агенција Бета/Serbian Latin: Novinska agencija Beta) is a Serbian agency which was founded in 1992. It was founded to "provide full and objective coverage of events in the country (Serbia) and the region of Southeast Europe".
In 2000, the agency was fined by the government (the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under Slobodan Milošević) for publishing anti-establishment materials. The agency was fined 150,000 dinars (approx. US$12,860 or €13,630), and the agency's director and chief editor were each fined 80,000 dinars (approx. US$6,860 or €7,270). The fines were denounced by Reporters Without Borders.
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