Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
Jasna has worked at BIRN Macedonia since January 2016.
She has extensive experience in civil society in Macedonia. Prior to joining BIRN, she was leading a project for strengthening independent media at the Media Development Centre in Skopje. She has served as member committee president of AIESEC Macedonia and has also worked for DHL in Germany. She holds a BA in Accounting and Auditing from the Faculty of Economics at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
Labinot has monitored court sessions for BIRN Kosovo for almost two years.
He graduated in law, and completed his master’s on commercial contracts.
She joined the BIRN team in 2014 and is responsible for both finance and administration jobs, producing finance reports, processing invoices and daily track of daily revenue and spending.
In addition, she is managing the daily functioning of BIRN Hub’s Belgrade office.
Snezana has been working in finance administration for almost 20 years. She speaks Serbian and Macedonian.
Marcus Tanner is Editor at Balkan Insight
Marcus studied theology at Cambridge before becoming the Balkans correspondent for The Independent from 1988 to 1994.
He returned to London to become the Assistant Foreign Editor of The Independent from 1996 to 2000 before leaving to write books on Ireland and on the Celts and to work briefly in Kyrgyzstan.
He has worked full time for Balkan Insight since 2006, while continuing to write leader-page articles twice a month for The Independent.
His published books are: “Ticket to Latvia”, Dent & Weidenfeld, “Croatia, a Nation Forged in War”, “Ireland’s Holy Wars”, “The Last of the Celts” and “The Raven King, Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library”, all published by Yale University Press.
He edited Marija Mestrovic’s “Ivan Mestrovic, The making of a Master”, published by Stacey International. He lives in London.
Lamija joined Detektor (BIRN BiH) in January 2014 as a web archive assistant and intern. As of January 2015, she is working as a journalist for Detektor.
For the past decade she has been investigating topics related to war crimes, transitional justice, genocide denial, terrorism and hate crimes. She has been reporting about war crime trials from Bosnia’s State Court, local courts as well as the Hague Tribunal. On numerous occasions she has been a lecturer on topics she is familiar with.
Lamija is the author of a documentary, Samir Mehic Bowie – Letters from Srebrenica, and was the journalist and the interviewer on the project The Lives Behind the Fields of Death, which filmed more than 100 testimonies from surviving witnesses of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
She is also the co-author of the practical handbook Media reporting on persons missing due to 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2023, she and Dzana Brkanic were awarded second prize in the European Union Investigative Journalism Awards for an investigation into court verdicts over the past ten years for hate crimes. She was a member of BIRN BiH newsroom when it was awarded the European Press Prize Special Award in 2020 “for its reporting on war crimes trials, transitional justice issues and the problems faced by victims of the 1990s conflict”. She was shortlisted for the Srdjan Aleksic award in 2022 for “contribution to the community”.
Lamija is the co-scriptwriter of the first Bosnian PC adventure game, Searching for the treasure of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which promotes the cultural and historical heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This game is the product of a UNICEF campaign within the MDGF Culture for Development programme implemented in partnership with UNDP and UNESCO.
She was awarded the literary “Fra Grgo Martic” awards by the foundation bearing that name for the best debut prose book of 2009 in Bosnia.
Lamija graduated in Journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Sarajevo. Apart from Bosnian, her mother tongue, she speaks English and Norwegian.
Katarina has been working on projects promoting peacebuilding and reconciliation in the Balkans since 2010. She has expertise in transitional justice topics in Serbia and Bosnia, having monitored and actively participated in implementation of over 20 TJ related projects.
She has expertise in transitional justice topics in Serbia and Bosnia, having monitored and actively participated in implementation of over 20 TJ related projects.
As a project manager at BIRN BiH for the past 11 years, she has broadened her knowledge and scope of work to security and corruption topics. She has expertise in project management in media and high analytical skills. She has participated in numerous conferences and seminars on international politics and communications.
Since 2014, when she joined BIRN BiH, she has managed several signature projects related to genocide in Srebrenica and war crimes in BiH, including: Lives behind the fields of death; Database of court established facts about the war; Transitional justice in BiH; Role of Serbia in Bosnian war – jigsaw puzzle of verdicts and The Srebrenica Genocide in the Words of its Perpetrators. She was also one of co-authors of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre’s Report on Genocide Denial, 2024.
In January 2026, she became Head of Programmes at BIRN BiH.
Katarina has a BA in International Affairs and a MA in Peace Studies from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade.
Emina joined BIRN BiH’s Detektor team in March 2014. She previously worked as a web archive assistant and intern at BIRN BiH.
Since January 2015, she has worked as a court monitor reporting on war crime trials for Justice Report.
Emina graduated in Journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Sarajevo. In 2016, she received her master’s degree at the Faculty of Political Sciences. She won the first “Srdjan Aleksić” award for her texts about the challenges of marginalized groups in Bosnian society for 2020, as well as a special recognition from UNICEF for media contribution to the promotion and protection of children’s rights in BiH for 2022. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the “Fetisov” international award for her series of stories about war crimes and transitional justice.
Vlado has been covering topics related to organised crime, corruption and human rights for the last five years and at the beginnings of his journalism career he was working as a reporter in the economic newsrooms in several media.
Before joining the BIRN Macedonia team, for five years he worked as a journalist for to the weekly Fokus magazine, where he was also a second editor in chief for the last 2014 year. He has worked for the news site NOVA TV, the daily newspaper Spic and for the weekly magazine Sega. In his career Vlado had collaborated with several magazines that cover music and arts. He has written music reviews for magazines and online music portals.
He has attended many training courses and workshops, including the BIRN Summer School for Investigative Journalism in 2013. He has received awards for his investigative stories from the Association of Journalists from Macedonia and the Macedonian media institute.
Aleksandra Bogdani is an investigative journalist for BIRN Albania.
Bogdani has long experience as deputy editor-in-chief on daily newspapers such as MAPO and Shekulli. Bogdanii was a participant in BIRN’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme 2012.
Alma Koci joined BIRN’s Balkan Transitional Justice team as a translator in December 2014.
She has a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Tirana, Albania. Since 2007 she has worked as a translator for various electronic media outlet and television stations in Albania.
