IJAS team

Executive Board

Zeljko Bodrozic

Zeljko Bodrozic (President) (born in 1970) is a journalist and editor-in-chief of the weekly Kikindske.

He started his journalism career in 1991. During the 1990s, he had worked in several local media (TV KI, Ki-press, Kikindske novosti, RTV VK). In October 1998, along with a group of younger journalists from Kikinda and its local environment, he had launched the weekly Kikindske, both in Serbian and Hungarian. To this day, more than 1000 issues of Kikindske had been published.

By the end of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s, he was sentenced and fined for his articles a number of times. He is the first journalist from Serbia who has won a dispute against the state before the UN Human Rights Committee in New York (in 2005), and two disputes before the European Court in Strasbourg (2009). He wrote for the following papers: Nasa borba, Blic, Dnevnik, Danas, Vreme, Bulevar, Novi magazin, Republika, Status, Pescanik and E-novine. In 2001 he has won a journalist reward “Dusan Bogavac”.

He was a member of the IJAS Executive Board in three terms and since 2014 he was a Vice President of the Association. He lives in Kikinda.

Zeljko Bodrozic

President

Stojan Markovic

Stojan Markovic (born in 1959) is a journalist and a TV and film producer.

He is a founder, editor and director of three media outlets: Ozon Radio (in 1996), weekly Cacanske (in 2004) and portal Ozonpress.net (in 2012). He was a TV producer in TV Sarajevo from 1981 until 1990. He was a director of the Culture Centre in Cacak twice (1990-1993 and 1996-1997). He was editor-in-chief of Radio GEM in Gornji Milanovac for two years (1995-1996). Then he transferred to the position of the director of News Company Cacanski glas. From 2001 until 2003, as the chief editor, he managed Radio Ozon Plus (Chicago, USA). From 2003 until 2011, he was an editor-in-chief of Ozon Radio and Cacanske novine. Since 2011 he is a director of Media Company Ozon Media d.o.o. which has a seat in Cacak. He is a member of the Executive Board of Local Press – the Association of Local Independent Print Media. He is also a member of the Complaints Commission of the Press Council. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of IJAS from 2014 until 2018. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He lives in Cacak.

Stojan Markovic

Radoman Iric

Radoman Iric (born in 1950) is an independent journalist and has retired.

He became a professional journalist in mid-1974. He began his journalism career as a student when with a group of students, he had launched the faculty papers Politikolog in 1970. He was a member of the editorial team of Student. He was an editor and director of the papers Polimlje and Radio Polimlje (Prijepolje), first editor of Radio Vranje, and then editor of the papers Simpo and Yumco, technical editor of Slobodna rec and associate of weekly Vranjske. He worked for press agencies Beta, Tanjug, Reuters and France-Presse, Radio Free Europe and RTV B92. He was a correspondent of Vecernje novosti, Danas and Blic. He was removed from his work by the Milosevic regime on 1 May 1995, and he is an independent journalist ever since. He wrote chronicles and specialised for the south of Serbia, especially for Serbian-Albanian relations. He won the Radio Award of the Second Programme of Radio Belgrade and Association of Radio Stations of Serbia in 1982, and the award “Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic” in 2001. He wrote a book Jug Srbije posle 200 ratnih dana – South of Serbia after 200 days of the war. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade. He lives in Vranje.

Radoman Iric

Nedzat Behljulji

Nedzat Behljulji (born in 1968) is a columnist and owner of TV Spektri in Bujanovac.

He never was a professional journalist but was always directly related to journalists and media. He was editor-in-chief in TV Spektri. He writes columns and expresses his opinions for the dailies in Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. Due to his attitudes, he was physically assaulted several times and is being threatened almost every day. He is a President of the private family company “Elhan Commerce” which includes TV Spektri, the television which broadcasts a programme in Albanian. Due to the specific nature of the south of Serbia, TV Spektri has long and rich cooperation with TV stations in Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. Besides having a TV station, the company “Elhan Commerce” is both a cable operator and Internet provider, also maintaining and securing base stations of VIP Mobile in the south of Serbia. Nedžat has graduated from High School of Commerce in Prizren. He lives in Bujanovac.

Nedzat Behljulji

Nadezda Budimovic

Nadezda Budimovic (born in 1958) graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, Department of Journalism in Belgrade. More than thirty-five years ago, she started her journalism career in Radio Krusevac and the weekly Pobeda. From 1991 until 1996, she worked as an editor-in-chief of Radio Krusevac. She was an author of the Second Programme concept in Radio Krusevac, which is more famous as RK Dvojka, established when she was an editor-in-chief of that radio programme. Since 2000, she is editor-in-chief of Radio Television Rubin, and since 2003 she is working in weekly GRAD, at the moment as the editor-in-chief.

As a correspondent from Krusevac, she has worked for magazines Ekonomist and Akter, dailies Balkan and Politika, Press Agency Beta and British Radio BBC – Serbian language programme.

She has won the award “Green leaf” of the Association for Clear Air of Serbia, the award “Pavle Cirovic” of Local Press – the Association of Local Independent Print Media and the second prize for media tolerance awarded by Commissioner for Equality of the Republic of Serbia in 2017.

Nadezda Budimovic

Sanja Kljajic

Sanja Kljajic (Vice President) (born in 1990) is a journalist and a correspondent for German Deutsche Welle.

She worked in Public Broadcasting Service RTV Vojvodina until 2016 when she left RTV as a sign of protest for the attempt of censoring her story. She is a journalist of Vojvodina Investigative and Analytical Centre – VOICE. She is an associate of the Independent Journalist Association of Vojvodina - IJAV, Foundation Slavko Curuvija and one of the leaders of the movement “Support RTV”. She has won the award for ethics and courage “Dušan Bogavac” in 2016 and the festival’s award On the record in the category of short radio formats during her years at the university in 2012. She graduated from journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, where she is also completing her master studies in communicology. She lives in Novi Sad

Sanja Kljajic

Marina Fratucan

Marina Fratucan (born in 1968) is an independent journalist.

She has been in journalism for more than 30 years. Her career has started in the youth, culture and art programme of TV Novi Sad. She has cooperated with a number of media in the region of Yugoslavia: TV Beograd, TV Zagreb, TV Sarajevo, TV Titograd, TV Priština, YUTEL, Beta Agency, B92, Radio 021 and others. She founded her production company Urbans, in 1996, which covered regional topics. She was an editor and presenter of investigative and analytical journalism show Radar which had won several awards and was cancelled in mid-2016 after five years of intermittent broadcasting on RTV Vojvodina. Along with her associates, she has continued broadcasting the show on the YouTube channel. She was an active participant in the protest “Support RTV”. Her professional recognitions include TV Discovery of the Year in the SFRY area in 1989; PRESS VITEZ for the show RADAR 201; CIRCOM Regional Award (European Association of Regional Television) for the show Radar, as the best news magazine in 2016. She teaches journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, and she lives in Novi Sad.

Marina Fratucan

Zoran Pavic

Zoran Pavic (born in 1964) is a sports editor in daily Danas.

He started working in journalism in 1982. He was a journalist and editor in dozen of dailies and weeklies (Omladinske novine, Borba, Naša Borba, Glas javnosti, Reporter, Status magazin, Blic, Danas). He was a lecturer and a mentor in the School of Journalism under the auspices of Soros Foundation and did the same job at Prva medijska akademija (PMA). He gave dozens of lectures at the journalists’ workshops in many cities in Serbia. He is one of the authors of the Beginner’s Guide for Journalists. In 2008, he was awarded the IJAS award for investigative journalism. He lives in Belgrade.

Zoran Pavic

Vojislav Stevanovic

Vojislav Stevanovic (born in 1976) is a journalist of the Regional Television N1.

His career in professional journalism started in 2000. From 2000 until 2003, he was a journalist in the daily Danas. From 2003 until 2011, he was an editor of the weekly Ekonomist magazin. He worked in online communications in Erste Bank from 2011 until 2013. He was a journalist of weekly Novi magazin from 2013 until 2014, as well as their portal. Since 2014, he has been a permanent member of the regional TV station N1 newsroom. He cooperated with TV B92 in stories on the economy in the show Budjelar, as well as the TV production of Novi magazine. One of the most important jobs in his career as a journalist was training and forming young journalists, in particular for online and social media (Twitter, Facebook and others). He was a member of the Supervisory Board of IJAS from 2010 until 2014. He was a member of the Executive Board of IJAS from 2014 until 2018. He lives in Belgrade.

Vojislav Stevanovic

Nikola Kocovic

Nikola Kocovic (born in 1986) is a journalist of the Radio Station Sto plus.

In 2009 he started working as a journalist in local television Jedinstvo in Novi Pazar. In September 2012, he transferred to the Radio Sto plus, which is owned by Press Agency Beta, so he works as Beta correspondent. Since May 2014, he has been a correspondent for the daily Blic. He covers stories on politics, corruption, crime and the economy. He won the award for the best radio show in the selection of European Progress in 2017. In 2016, he was among ten journalists from Serbia who covered the US Presidential Elections. He has completed many seminars and received certificates for investigative journalism.

He lives in Novi Pazar.

Nikola Kocovic

Court of Honor

Vlado Mares

Vlado Mares (born in1955) editor at the Beta News Agency. He worked as a journalist on RTS (former TV Belgrade) from 1978 until he was fired in 1992 due to anti-war and anti-regime attitudes. After that, he worked in Politika and BK televisions, the daily newspapers Blic and Demokratija, and in the Beta agency. He went through everything - from reporter, to editor-in-chief, and also worked as a BBC journalist coach. Winner of the award for investigative journalism of IJAS and the American Embassy in Belgrade for 2006, for the TV documentary "Deportation - Loyalty Award" about war crimes in BiH. Member and President of the Court of the IJAS in the term 2014-2018. years. He is a member of the Press Council Commission (representative of IJAS). He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Lives in Belgrade.

Vlado Mares

Zlatko Čobović

Zlatko Čobović, born in Belgrade in 1954. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Professional journalist since 1976. Journalist in the Yugoslav sports newspaper Sport (1976 - 1980), in Vecernje novosti (1980 - March 2000), journalist of the domestic political column and editor of European News, editor of the domestic political column in Danas (2000 - 2001), editor since 2001 in the FoNet news agency, FoNet correspondent in The Hague (2001-2005). Columnist and contributor to several domestic magazines (Blic, NIN, Vreme ...), long-term correspondent of the Greek circulation newspapers Etnos and Elefterotipia. Author of one book ("Behind the Scenes of the Hague Tribunal") and co-author of two books ("Return of the Champion", "60 Golden Years"). One of the founders of IJAS and a member of this association. Member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). Since 2010, a court expert for copyright, specialization in journalism, registered in the Register of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia. He is a member of the Complaints Commission of the Press Council and a member of the Court of Honor of IJAS.

Zlatko Cobovic

Draga Božinović

Draga Božinović (born in 1940) retired freelance journalist. She worked as a journalist in the Tanjug agency (1966-1994). She was a Scandinavian correspondent (1984-88). Editor of the external section and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Beta News Agency (1994-2011). She has reported on various international conferences, written on political, economic, cultural, sports and other topics. During the 1990s, she was an editor at the Institute for War and Peace (IWPR), and an editor at the Balkan Research Network (BIRN). Member of the Court of Honor of IJAS in the term 2014-2018. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Lives in Belgrade.

Draga Bozinovic

Momčilo Pantelić

Momčilo Pantelić (born in 1947) freelance journalist, foreign policy commentator. He was a regular correspondent of the daily "Politika" from the USA, China and Argentina, and at one time he was the editor-in-chief of that daily. He has been writing about global processes and Serbia's place in them for the last six years in "Novi magazin". He also analyzes world trends in television and radio shows, as well as at specialized gatherings. He is a member of the Forum for International Relations of the European Movement in Serbia. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Press Council as a representative of IJAS. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Lives in Belgrade.

Momcilo Pantelic

Safeta Biševac

Safeta Biševac (born in 1967) editor and columnist of the daily Danas. In the 1990s, she was a journalist for the daily Nasa Borba. In the newspaper Danas, since its founding in 1997, she previously worked in "Nasa Borba", from 1994 to 1998, and the news agency "Tiker", from 1992 to 1994. She collaborated with several media. As a journalist and deputy editor, she dealt mainly with domestic political issues, reporting from the Serbian Parliament, humanitarian issues, and human rights. She reported from the Hague Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia. She was a member of the Executive Board of IJAS and a member of the Board of the Press Council. Winner of the journalistic award "Nikola Burzan" for 2005. Member of the Court of Honor of IJAS in the term 2014-2018. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Lives in Belgrade.

Safeta Bisevac

Supervisor Committee

Vukašin Obradović

Vukašin Obradović (born in 1962) during his studies, he collaborated with the editorial offices of the youth media Student, NON, Mladost and "Stav". From 1989 to 1993, he was employed by Politika Express. After resigning due to disagreement with the editorial policy, at the end of 1994, he started Vranjske, a local weekly that was the only independent media in the south of Serbia until 2000. He received the "Dusan Bogavac", "Jug Grizelj" and "Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic" awards for his successful journalistic and editorial work. After the closure of Vranjski, he worked for the Beta agency and the Civic Initiatives.

Vukasin Obradovic

Vuk Cvijic

Vuk Cvijic (born in 1972), journalist and commentator of the daily "Blic". He started his journalistic career in the daily "Danas", for which he reported from the court on organized crime and corruption. Since 2006, he has been working for the daily Blic, where he reports on the judiciary and investigates organized crime and corruption. Winner of the "Dragisa Kashikovic" award for journalistic creativity in 2001. He was a member of the Commission for Admission of New Members and Termination of IJAS Membership in the 2010-2014 term. years. Lives in Belgrade.

Vuk Cvijic

Duško Medic

Duško Medic (born in 1972) journalist and general secretary of the NDNV. Worked as an ecologist, engineer, journalist, project manager, publisher, editor. He has published several publications and scientific papers in the field of media, sustainable development and environmental protection. He was the editor-in-chief and webmaster of the Nezavisni newspaper (1999-2001) and the operative editor and webmaster of the weekly Bulevar (2001-2003). He cooperated with a large number of domestic media, including "Dnevnik", "Poljoprivrednik", etc. Since 2011, he has been the executive secretary of the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina, and since 2016, the general secretary of the NDNV. Member of the Supervisory Board of IJAS in the term 2014-2018. He has a degree in environmental protection. He lives in Novi Sad.

Dusko Medic

Ljubomir Đorđević

Ljubomir Đorđević (born in 1967), freelance journalist, regular contributor to the weekly Novi magazin. In professional journalism since 1995. He worked as a journalist, editor and editor in a news agency, several dailies and magazines. For several years he worked as a journalist and editor in the newspaper "Danas". He has published many texts in the field of politics, social phenomenology and culture. He was a coordinator and collaborator in several IJAS projects, on the topics of media freedom, socially vulnerable groups and minority rights. Member of the Supervisory Board of IJAS in the term 2014-2018. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology. Lives in Belgrade.

Ljubomir Djorđevic

Mihajlo Kovac

Mihajlo Kovac (born in 1946) retired freelance journalist. In his rich career he worked as a journalist for the daily "Politika" (1970-1975); Editor of the Communist newspaper (1975-1980); Editor and editor-in-chief of Duga magazine (1980-1986); Editor and host of the TV daily RTS, editor of the foreign policy newsroom, author of numerous shows in the field of foreign policy, winner of the annual RTS award for TV trilogy on the fall of the Berlin Wall (1986-1992); Member of the Serbian Parliament (1990-1993); Media Consultant at the UN Office for Cooperation with the Government of the SFRJ (1994-2001); Ambassador of FR Yugoslavia to Austria (2001-2005); Editor and host of the National Daily TV Pink (2005-2008). Member of the Court of Honor of IJAS in the term 2014-2018. years. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb. Lives in Belgrade.

Mihajlo Kovac

Secretariate

Tamara Filipović Stevanović

Tamara Filipovic Stevanovic has been working at Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia since August 2010. Initially she worked as a project manager, then from July 2020 as Secretary General of IJAS. She works on development and management of the projects regarding increasing professional and ethical capacity of journalists, safety of journalists, public media policies etc. She is a media activist, with special interest in media policies and journalists’ rights. She writes reports and advocate for development of media sector and increase of media freedoms. She participated in the development and implementation of the advocacy strategy of IJAS, in the development and implementation of the regional platform SafeJournalist and finally in the development of the Media Strategy of the Republic of Serbia. She is a member of several media working groups and commissions at the state level. Tamara studied on Faculty of Philosophy, department for History.

Tamara Filipovic Stevanovic

Secretary General

Marko Lazić

Marko Lazić, has been working at IJAS since 2010 as a financial assistant, and since 2011 as an independent financial manager. He graduated at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. Responsible for the regular financial operations o IJAS, preparation of annual budgets and budgets for individual projects as well as for financial management of projects and preparation of financial reports in the amount of 10,000 EUR to 1,300,000 EUR. Born in Smederevska Palanka in 1984.

Marko Lazic

Financial Manager

Marija Babić

Marija Babić, born in 1987 in Belgrade. Since 2016, she has been engaged in IJAS as a researcher on the project Regional Platform of the Western Balkans for Advocating for Media Freedoms and Security of Journalists, and as a legal advisor. She is an author of four researches/report on the topic of media freedom and safety of journalists were published (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), and she published the publication Media and Police in the Western Balkans (2017). She completed her two-year internship at the First Basic Court in Belgrade (from November 2013 to November 2015).

Marija Babic

Researcher and legal adviser

Nikola Krstić

Nikola Krstic, has been working in at IJAS from 1^ST of February 2021. He started working as a journalist in 2015. He is currently the editor of the "Dosije o medijima", published by the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia. He worked in the “e-novine”, and in the newsweek "Vreme". He was the deputy editor-in-chief of the "Editor" portal, which dealt with socio-political issues through the pop cultural prism, and he was also the assistant editor of the "Vugl" portal, which is owned by the weekly "Vreme" and focused on the audience born during the 1990s. He wrote for the daily newspaper "Danas", the weekly "Nedeljnik" and the Croatian weekly "Forum". He also wrote music reviews and critiques for "Balkanrock". He wrote a lot of texts of articles for the "Vajb" on the topic of youth problems and aspirations.. He follows a daily socio-political topics, topics about extremists and nationalist, and war past of Serbia, war crimes and criminals, but also topics related to pop culture. Graduated from the Faculty of Culture and Media. Lives in Belgrade.

Nikola Krstic

Journalists

Rade Đurić

Rade Đurić, an expert in the field of spending budget funds, the fight against corruption and the media. Part of IJAS since 2020. In his sixteen-year career, he was an associate of Transparency Serbia, UNDP, OSCE, GIZ. The first civil supervisor in public procurement in Serbia, with over 300 overturned illegal public procurement procedures. Today, he is a member of the Standing Working Group for the Safety of Journalists and the Working Group for the Development of a Platform for Recording Threats and Threats. Author of several analyzes and papers in the field of fight against corruption, procurement and media.

Rade Djuric

Researcher and legal adviser

Miona Milošević

Miona Milošević, born in 1991 in Kragujevac. Since February 2020, she has been engaged in IJAS as a project coordinator on the project Regional Platform of the Western Balkans for Advocating Media Freedoms and Security of Journalists - SafeJournalists. He works on the development and management of projects related to increasing the professional and ethical capacities of journalists, as well as the safety of journalists. After graduating from the Second Kragujevac Gymnasium, she enrolled at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade - majoring in international politics. Prior to joining IJAS, she worked as a translator and English teacher.

Miona Milosevic

Project manager

Dunja Obradović

Dunja Obradović, has been with IJAS since September 2018. In charge of managing and editing the profile of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia on social networks. Prior to this engagement, she worked in IPSOS strategic marketing, in the Basketball Association of Serbia in the PR team for the organization of Olympic basketball qualifications. Born in Vranje in 1991, she graduated from the "Bora Stankovic" high school, after which she enrolled in the FPN in Belgrade.

Dunja Obradovic

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