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.