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Ivana Jeremic

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.

Applications Open for 2019 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

Do you know of a brilliant story that is begging to be reported? Do you want to take your skills as a journalist to another level, receiving close editorial support and a generous allowance to research a subject in depth?

If the answer to either of those questions is yes, you should consider applying for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence. The Application Form and Guidelines are on the BFJE website.

Each year, 10 journalists are chosen through open competition to receive funding and professional support to conduct in-depth research and write journalistic stories that reveal something new about our world – or that reveal the familiar in a new light.

The theme for this year’s fellowship is FREEDOM. We are open to applications from journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Greece and Serbia. Please make sure you send us your application, including your proposal for a story based on this year’s theme, by March 6.

Applicants selected by an independent committee to take part in the fellowship will receive a €2,000 bursary and up to another €2,000 for travel and research expenses. They will also attend international seminars and receive continuous one-to-one mentoring for their stories.

Stories from the programme will be published by BIRN and by prominent regional and international media outlets. The top three stories, as selected by an independent jury, will also receive cash awards.

The Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence was launched in 2007 to promote high-quality, cross-border reporting. The programme provides fellows with financial and editorial support, enabling them to travel, report and write their stories and develop their journalistic skills.

Aimed at promoting the development of a robust and responsible press, the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence has evolved into a signature programme that has helped shape journalistic standards across the Balkans while boosting the careers of participating reporters.

Global Focus

PARTNER
Global Focus Center is an independent think tank based in Bucharest, Romania, which produces in-depth research and high quality analysis on foreign policy, security, European affairs, good governance and development. Its purpose is to advance expertise by functioning as a platform for cooperation and dialogue among individual experts, NGOs, think-tanks and public institutions from Romania and foreign partners.

Web: http://www.global-focus.eu

The ERSTE Foundation NGO Academy

PARTNER
The ERSTE Foundation NGO Academy was founded in 2013 with the goal of strengthening the civil society sector in Central and South-Eastern Europe by providing further educational opportunities.

The Academy offers a range of high-quality capacity building programmes designed specifically for executive managers and staff members of NGOs.
Web: http://ngo-academy.erstestiftung.net/

Internews

PARTNER
Internews empowers people worldwide with the trustworthy, high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communities, and hold power to account.

Our vision is to unleash human potential everywhere by turning on the bright light of information.

USAID’s Balkan Media Assistance Program, through Internews, is making media practitioners in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia more competitive in the local and regional marketplace and strengthening the sustainability of independent media in the region.

Web: https://www.internews.org

Vreme

PARTNER
A weekly magazine, established in 1990 in Serbia by a group of liberal intellectuals and journalists, most of Vreme’s original staff were journalists from Politika newspaper and NIN magazine.

It characterizes itself as a magazine without lies, hatred or prejudice. It opposed nationalistic mobilization for, and during, the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

Web: www.vreme.com/

Portal Novosti

PARTNER
Novosti is a Croatian weekly magazine and a portal based in Zagreb.

It is published by the Serbian National Council (SNV), the body concerned with promotion of human rights of Serbs in Croatia.

The magazine, billed as an “independent Serbian weekly”, describes its editorial policy as being primarily concerned with covering general news and publishing critical writing about all the relevant political, social and cultural developments in Croatia and the region. It also has a strong emphasis on civil society.

Web: www.portalnovosti.com/

Hromadske TV

PARTNER
Hromadske TV appeared in the Ukrainian media landscape at the end of 2013 as a response to the longtime public demand for independent public broadcasting.

It has quickly become an important source of information on key social processes in the country. A network of TV and radio broadcasters, the Hromadske Network is now established in cities across Ukraine.

Web: https://hromadske.ua/