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Ana has been working as a journalist since 1997. She was a
staff writer for the Skopje based Forum magazine until 2000. During the 1999
Kosovo conflict she also worked with television stations Arte, Spiegel TV and
Rai Uno.
In 2000 she won a scholarship for a professional year
development at Indiana University's School of Journalism and spent a year in
the United States. While overseas she worked as a correspondent for Deutsche Welle's
Macedonian service.
From 2001 until May 2003 she covered the Macedonian conflict and its aftermath
for Reuters. In 2002 she was Associate producer of
IWPR`s documentary “Ohrid and beyond”. She was IWPR Country Director for
Macedonia from 2003 until 2005.
In 2005 she established the Balkan
Investigative Reporting Network BIRN, in Macedonia, a local
non-governmental organisation which is part of the wider regional network. In
2006 she produced BIRN`s documentary on Kosovo “Does Anyone Have a Plan?”. She
has chaired and attended numerous public debates and is often invited to
comment current affairs in Macedonia by local and international media as the
Economist, Radio Free Europe, BBC, CNN.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
