BIRN Serbia News and Events

Dragana Zarkovic Obradovic is BIRN Serbia’s Director and a Regional Manager of the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme.

Months of reports published by Balkan Insight about the student-led protest movement in Serbia have been compiled into a new e-book for free download.

The first prize for the Dejan Anastasijevic Award, named after the late highly respected Serbian journalist, in investigative journalism was handed to Aleksa Tesic for the series on the wiretapping of Serbian activists. The third prize was won by Sasa Dragojlo and Avi Scharf for their series on Serbia’s arms exports to Israel.

Two journalists from BIRN in Serbia were the targets of a failed attempt to install the powerful Israeli spyware Pegasus on their phones, a forensic analysis conducted by Amnesty International has confirmed.

BIRN journalist Sasa Dragojlo was assaulted by a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party while covering a protest in Belgrade, but police refused to identify the assailant.

Aleksa Tesic has been a journalist at BIRN Serbia for over three years. He mainly covers technology and the misuse of personal data of citizens.

Dragana Prica Kovacevic, a reporter with Radio 021 and a grantee of BIRN’s Reporting Democracy, won a Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Annual Media Award, which recognises the best articles that contribute to the fight against discrimination and the promotion of equality and tolerance.

Gordana Andric, Aleksandar Djordjevic, Andjela Milivojevic and Radmilo Markovic received awards for stories investigating embezzlement through public competitions, illegal constructions in Belgrade and image-based sexual abuse of women.

Gordana Andric is executive editor at BIRN Serbia.

Serbia spent millions of euros on thousands of projects with little control over spending, no evaluation of projects’ impacts and no oversight if projects were implemented as agreed, a new report by BIRN Serbia shows.

New data on ownership of 43 media with the largest audience share in Serbia, published by BIRN Serbia and Global Media Registry (GMR) reveals a high risk of ownership and audience concentration and political control.

State institutions and public enterprises are increasingly buying video surveillance systems, including equipment with face recognition and detection features, BIRN Serbia reveals in its new report based on public procurement data analysis.

The majority of the most-read online media in Serbia regularly publish personal data of individuals they report on, violating their right to privacy, a new BIRN Serbia report reveals.

During the three-day course, the participants gained new knowledge and acquired skills to report on digital rights and issues related to the violation of freedoms in the online sphere in Serbia.

Created in memory of Yugoslav-era journalist Dusan Bogavac, the annual award is given in recognition of ethics and courage in journalism.