Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Emirjeta Vllahiu joined the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in July 2018. She was initially engaged as an intern and currently is a junior journalist at KALLXO.com.
She graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Pristina, and is now completing a Master of Journalism and Public Relations at the same university. Before joining BIRN, Emirjeta worked as a journalist at the online media organisation AktivPress.
She covers mainly political developments in the country, research on social topics, and daily news.
Emirjeta was awarded the “Annual Child Protection Award 2018” by the Coalition of NGOs for Child Protection (KOMF).
Based in Belgrade, Ivana is an editor of BIRN’s Digital Rights Programme.
Before assuming the new role, Ivana spent five years as Balkan Insight’s deputy editor. Previously she worked as an investigative reporter/fact-checker at the 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.
As a part of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia team, Ivana is the European Press Prize and Anthony Lewis 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 and the 2nd place prize winner 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 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.
