Before joining the Detektor newsroom, she worked as a journalist at Radio Sarajevo for three years. She graduated with a degree in journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Sarajevo in 2017.
She is engaged on trial reporting, as well as on topics related to corruption and the judiciary.
Lejla is the author of the weekly Detektor newsletter. She authored Detektor’s campaign, “16 days of activism against gender-based violence”, for 2024, and is currently working on the Judicial Transparency Index report.