Dorentina Kastrati

Dorentina is a journalist who joined KALLXO.com initially as an intern at the end of 2016.

She graduated from the Journalism Department at the University of Pristina and is now pursuing a Master’s degree in European Integration and Public Administration at the public university in Pristina. The topics she addresses in her articles span across various fields, ranging from citizen reporting and daily news to investigations into public procurement.

Adelina Ahmeti

Adelina began her career as an intern at KALLXO.com at the end of 2015 and within a few months was promoted to the position of a journalist.

Her primary fields of experience are related to security issues and law enforcement. Her articles often arouse regional interest and are published on Balkan Insight. She studies journalism at the University of Pristina.

Serbeze Haxhiaj

Serbeze Haxhiaj is covering issues related to establishing justice and
facilitating reconciliation after the 1998-1999 Kosovo war. Her
particular focus is on war crimes, human rights issues, rehabilitation of
victims and peace approaches in dealing with conflict and its aftermath.

Serbeze has been working as an investigative journalist and news editor in Kosovo and for international media for 20 years, dealing mainly with the most pressing issues such as corruption, human rights, security issues, religious extremism, terrorism and war crimes.

She is currently an editor at Radio Television of Kosovo and a journalist for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). She has previously worked for the daily newspapers Rilindja, Zeri, Lajm and Koha Ditore. She was the correspondent in Pristina of the French Courrier des Balkans. Her articles were also published in some of the main newspapers in Europe and recently she had articles published in The Financial Times, Der Standard, Neue Zurcher Zeitung and Al Jazeera.

She also has worked for five years as a researcher for Navanti, an American research and analysis company.

For her reporting on war crimes, organised crime, corruption, human rights and violence against women, Serbeze has been awarded 19 times by various local and international organisations.

Serbeze holds MA in International Law.

She speaks Albanian, English and Serbian.

Goce Trpkovski

Goce Trpkovski has been working as a journalist since 2004.

He joined BIRN from the beginning of 2018, and prior to that he has been working as a reporter and editor in the daily newspapers Vreme and Nova Makedonija.

In May 2019, he was given an award by the Macedonian National Council of the International Council of Museums for raising awareness about the poor condition of cultural heritage in the country.

Hatidza Gusic

Based in Sarajevo’s BIRN Hub office, Hatidza manages media projects and oversees implementation activities, as well as the process of developing rulebooks, guidelines and modification of existing provisions. She also acts as a liaison for the Network in terms of capacity building.

Hatidza worked as a project manager for NGOs for various human rights and media projects, and most recently as a grants manager at Internews for the Balkans Media Assistance Program. She is a co-author of the book #ZeneBiH – an illustrated book about extraordinary women from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Hatidza has BA in Management from the Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo and MA/MSc – Joint Double Diploma Master Programme in Economics and Management of Public Sector and Environment.

She speaks Bosnian, English and Spanish.

Milica Stojanovic

Based in Belgrade, Milica works on stories related to transitional justice in Serbia.

Before joining BIRN, Milica worked, for five years, at the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS), where she covered topics such as the judiciary, energy and public spending. Prior to CINS, Milica worked as a journalist and the daily/weekend editor at the online news portal Telegraf.rs.

As a member of CINS team, she won the 2017 European Press Prize for investigative journalism. She got an annual award for investigative journalism in 2015 from the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia. She holds seven domestic and international awards in total, alone or as a member of CINS team, for stories about the judiciary, corruption, or the environment.

Milica has MA in Journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. She speaks Serbian and English.

Edit Inotai

Based in Budapest, Edit is reporting about Hungary for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.

She was formerly the Foreign Editor and Berlin Correspondent of the leading daily, Nepszabadsag, and the foreign policy analyst for the business weekly, Figyelo.

Edit holds a PhD from Corvinus University Budapest and has MA from ELTE University Budapest in English and Spanish philology.

She speaks Hungarian, English, German, Spanish.

Claudia Ciobanu

Based in Warsaw, Claudia is reporting on political and social developments in Poland. Originally from Romania, she’s been based in Warsaw since 2012.

Claudia has been a journalist for a decade, starting out at the Romanian national daily, Cotidianul, before moving to cover Central and Eastern Europe as a freelancer for various international outlets. Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, Reuters and Al Jazeera. She is particularly interested in social movements, frontline communities and illiberal regimes.

Claudia won the first prize in the 2018 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic excellence. She was a finalist in the Reporting Europe and One World Media awards.

She has MA in Political Science from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Xheneta Murtezaj

Xheneta Murtezaj has been engaged as a journalist at KALLXO.com since July 2018, initially as an intern, and within a few months was promoted to the position of Junior Journalist.

She has a Bachelor degree from the College of Mass Communication in Journalism from AAB College, and now she is now undertaking a Master degree in Public Administration and Diplomacy at AAB College.

Xheneta deals mainly with social issues and local governance, but reports widely across other sectors as well.

Isa Vatovci

Isa Vatovci has been part of the Kallxo.com team since September 2018.

He has a long experience as a journalist and has worked in several media. He graduated in the Faculty of Philology at the Department of Literature and Albanian Language. His specialty is culture, topics around inheritance and social issues.