Journalists Who Cover Western Balkans

Aleksandar Brezar

Rome, Italy

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Aleksandar Brezar is a journalist, factchecker and debunker with experience in a variety of media outlets, ranging from print and radio to television and online/new media. He also co-hosts Sarajevo Calling, a podcast on Western Balkans affairs. His work was featured in The Guardian, The Washington ...

Alexandra Brzozowski

Brussels, Belgium

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Brussels-based journalist covering EU foreign, security and defence policy since 2017. Regional expertise in the EU’s neighbourhood with on-the-ground reporting from Europe's (far) East, including the Eastern Partnership—particularly Russia’s war on Ukraine from Brussels, Kyiv, and beyond— the ...

Una Cilic

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Una Cilic is a multimedia journalist, currently based in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Michael Colborne

Prague, Czech Republic

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Michael Colborne is a Canadian freelance journalist covering all things central and eastern Europe. His words and pictures have been published in Coda Story, CBC, Sydney Morning Herald, Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, National Post and other places. 

Before moving into journalism Michael spent eight ...

Aleksandar Djokic

Belgrade, Serbia

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Aleksandar Djokic is a political and economic columnist and op-ed writer. Currently writing for Bloomberg Adria in Serbo-Croatian, Novaya Gazeta Europe/Russia in Russian and Euronews in English. Political scientist by education, with a past career in academia (lecturing and writing scientific ...

Saša Dobrijević

Belgrade, Serbia

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Saša Dobrijević is a journalist based in Belgrade, Serbia He is a member of the United States Press Agency, USPA - Las Vegas; International Federation of Journalists, IFJ - Brussels and Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia - NUNS Belgrade Reporters Without Borders - RFS Paris and Global ...

Giorgio Fruscione

Beograd, Serbia

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I am a freelance journalist and fixer based in Belgrade, Serbia. I am the deputy director and main correspondent for the Balkans of eastjournal.net, most read Italian newspaper on Eastern Europe. 
I write news, reportage, analysis and features in Italian, English and Serbian language; among the ...

Ilinka Iljoska

Prishtina

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I am an experienced independent journalist based in North Macedonia. I can cover Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania and Bulgaria. I am always ready to travel at short notice. 

I provide written materials as well as and multimedia reports and documentaries.  I cover the entire ...

Mihai Isac

Chişinău, Moldova

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Mihai Isac is a journalist based in Chişinău, Moldova. With an activity of almost two decades in the media in the Republic of Moldova and Romania, he is a journalist at TVR Moldova and a permanent guest on the weekly foreign policy program Global Impact of this station. He also periodically ...

Samir Jeraj

London, United Kingdom

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Samir Jeraj is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom. He works as a Special Projects Writer for the New Statesman and has worked on freelance assignments for the Guardian, BBC News, Channel 4 News, The Metro, Inside Housing and the British Medical Journal. He co-authored The Rent Trap, a ...

Lucinda Jordaan

Cape Town, South Africa

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Lucinda Jordaan is a professional freelance journalist, researcher and Copy Editor based in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa,with extensive experience on all publishing platforms and within a variety of genres and specialities.

Evangelos Kokkinos

Athens, Greece

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Evangelos Kokkinos is a journalist based in Athens, Greece. Analyst/Researcher with two degrees/diplomas in Journalism and extensive experience in International conflict, disaster and health reporting, both in Greek and English-speaking news media. He is fluent in both, Greek and English, with ...

Bojana Majstorović

Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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My name is Bojan Veselinovic - Majstorovic . I live in Prijedor in Bosnia and Herzegovina . I graduated from journalism at the University of Banja Luka . I worked four years as a freelance journalist associate in Informative Technical Center Radio Television Republika Serbian Prijedor .
I was born ...

Iryna Matviyishyn

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Independent Ukrainian journalist, local producer/ fixer based in Kyiv. 2024 Václav Havel Fellow at RFE/RL.
Iryna has produced stories for NPR, Time magazine, The Times, Le Figaro, La Vie, La Presse, Tribune de Genève, Dispatch, and other outlets. As a reporter, she has contributed to the BBC, La ...

Marko Milosevic

Belgrade, Serbia

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I am a DoP, ENG cameraman and documentary photographer, based in Belgrade, Serbia.
Working for Serbian national television as ENG cameramen, I have shot more than a 3500 interwiews,
cultural events, breaking news, etc. As a DoP and camera operator, I have worked on feature documentary and short ...

Ivana Nikolic

Belgrade, Serbia

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Ivana Nikolic is a journalist based in Belgrade, Serbia.
Work experience
•	June 2019 – present 
Fixer and mentor on the documentary project of the British documentary filmmaker Joseph Shawyer. Responsible for finding interviewees, translations, etc.
•	June 2018 – present
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Lidija Pisker

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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A freelance journalist covering society, culture, travel and everything in between. I have worked with The Guardian, BBC, Euronews, Open Democracy, France 24, the Equal Times, and Radio Free Europe.

Darko Popovic

Beograd, Serbia

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I am an experienced journalist currently working for a local multi-media news agency with an online presence in Serbia. I have also worked in radio and print media. 
I can also provide still pix.

Jelena Prtoric

Zagreb, Croatia

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Jelena Prtoric is a journalist based in Zagreb, Croatie.