Arta Sopi

Arta Sopi became part of the KALLXO.com team in November 2018. Before she joined BIRN, Arta worked at the newspaper Zeri, and prior to that she undertook an internship at the newspaper Koha Ditore.

She completed her studies at the University of Pristina and now she is studying for a Master in Public Administration and Diplomacy at AAB College.

Her main field of interest is politics.

Ivana Jeremic

Based in Belgrade, Ivana is an editor at Balkan Insight in charge of coordinating and working on investigative stories.

Before joining BIRN, Ivana was an investigative reporter/fact-checker at Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia during a five-year period between 2012 and 2017 and was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the same organisation between 2017 and 2018.

For the last seven years, she has also been a fact-checker at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Additionally, she has been an External Assessor at the International Fact-checking Network since 2017.

As a part of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia team, Ivana is the European Press Prize 2017 laureate. She has also received the Balkan Fact-checking Award 2017, which under the auspices of the International Fact-Checking Network, was established with the aim to encourage citizens and journalists in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia to focus on the articles based on fact-checking. Ivana has been fellow of BIRN’s 2018 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.

Ivana studied at the the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

She speaks Serbian, English, and Spanish.

Dunja Hadzimurtezic

Dunja Hadzimurtezic joined BIRN Hub in September 2018 as Project/Administrative Assistant. She is based in BIRN Hub’s Sarajevo office providing support to the regional Finances, Operations, Projects and Programmes.

Her main responsibilities include close cooperation with the Finance Manager to ensure smooth operation of all finance matters, planning and organising petty cash for events, managing advances and reporting on expenses, managing bookings and travel related services, managing all entries into financial database, assisting and supporting Programme staff in implementation through advice and assistance on the ground (e.g. organization of event, collection of offers), assisting to the BIRN Regional Director in implementation of their work and all other administrative and operations tasks.

Before joining BIRN Hub, Dunja worked in the NGO sector for almost 14 years as Project Coordinator, gaining strong professional skills in Office Administration, Finances and Operations and Logistics. She also has experience working as Translator/ Interpreter for UNDP.

She studied at the University in Sarajevo in the Department of English Language and Literature. Along with her native Bosnian language, Dunja is fluent in English and has a basic knowledge of Albanian.

Natalija Jovanovic

During her journalism studies, Natatalija joined BIRN in 2015 as an intern working on media privatisation and public tenders for media. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade in 2016.

She is currently doing a master’s in Social Science and Computing at the University of Belgrade.

Dusica Tomovic

Dusica has been the Montenegrin correspondent based in Podgorica for BIRN’s regional publication Balkan Insight since 2013 and has been Balkan Insight Managing Editor since September 2018.

She has worked as a journalist since 2002, mainly covering politics and security issues.

Before joining BIRN, she worked for the Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti where she reported on security and military issues, and organised crime and corruption.

She graduated from the Music Academy, Cetinje, Montenegro and has completed a number of training courses in reporting and journalistic work. Dusica speaks Montenegrin, English and Italian.

Matt Robinson

Matt Robinson is a journalist, translator and former Reuters Bureau Chief for the Balkans and Special Correspondent for Central and Eastern Europe.

Matt started in journalism with Belgrade’s Radio B92 in 2001, before spending 14 years with Reuters in the Balkans, the Middle East and former Soviet Union. He has reported from more than 20 countries, including Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt and Greece.
In 2016, Matt was editor of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence. He re-joined BIRN in May 2018.

Madalin Necsutu

Based in Chisinau, Madalin Necsutu has been Balkan Insight’s correspondent from Moldova since 2017.

He is a political and investigative journalist who specialises in Eastern Europe and the politics of ex-Soviet states in the region.

He has worked as a journalist since 2006 for Romanian media outlets like the Mediafax news agency and daily newspapers ZIUA, Curentul and Evenimentul Zilei.

He was awarded for his political and investigative stories in Romania by the Romanian Professional Journalists Union in 2016; won the prize “European Reporter in 2017” by the European Commission; and has been awarded in Moldova by the UN Development Project in 2016.

He graduated from the Faculty of History in Bucharest, Romania, where he also completed an MA in International Relations. He did his postgraduate studies on diplomacy and is now doing a PhD in history in Chisinau, Moldova, where he has been based since 2015. He speaks Romanian, English, French, and basic Russian.

Haris Rovcanin

Haris has worked with BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina since September 2016.

He started working as a journalist in 2006. He   worked for the daily Oslobodjenje for three years before joining Dnevni List, where he worked for seven years, reporting on local crimes and the work of the judiciary dealing with organised crime, terrorism, corruption and, partially, war crimes.

He won   the   second   Fetisov   international   award   for   2021   in the “Outstanding Contribution to Peace” category for a series of four articles. In 2023 he was awarded the regional “Srdjan   Aleksic” award for contributions to the community for his work on the Database of Judicially Established Facts about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Semir Mujkic

Semir Mujkic is managing editor for BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina. He joined BIRN in April 2017 and has worked as a journalist and deputy editor for BIRN BiH website Detektor.ba where he is managing editor as of October 2019.

He was awarded Second prize at EU Investigative Awards in 2019 for investigative series Corruption in Public Procurements; the Best multimedia investigation into corruption by Anticorruption network in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2018; and a UNICEF prize for journalistic contribution for the protection and promotion of child rights in print media in 2016.

Semir has attended advanced training courses in journalism, Reuters’ training of trainers and a one-month training course on economic and political reporting in London and Berlin, as well as the BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting.

He graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo and has worked as a journalist since 2006, for Magazine Start and Online magazine Zurnal.

Gabrijela Vukicevic

Gabrijela Vukicevic joined BIRN Serbia as finance officer in October 2016.

For 15 years previous to that, she worked as finance/administrative officer at NVO MicroFinS and MicroFinS-DBS. MicroFinS collaborated with the UNHCR (UN refugee agency), SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) and CWS (Church World Service).