Team

Availability of a competent partner organization in a country is critical for effective implementation of MOM. MOM would not have been possible without the commitment and passion shown by the local team convened by BIRN Serbia.

MOM Team

Nafisa Hasanova - prior to joining RSF Nafisa worked on the Transdniestrian settlement process for the Finnish Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) Martti Ahtisaari Centre. From 2012 to 2014 she worked as policy officer for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia at APRODEV, now ACT Alliance EU in Brussels. In 2008-2012 Nafisa worked as project manager EUCAM (EU Central Asia Monitoring) at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS and FRIDE) in Brussels. Nafisa holds an MA in Intercultural Communication and European Studies from the University of Applied Studies in Fulda, Germany. She completed a BA in English Philology at the Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages in Uzbekistan and gained working experience as a visiting fellow at CEPS in 2007 as well as through an internship at the German Bundestag (2006).

Tanja Maksić
has been a member of the BIRN Serbia team since 2010. She develops and manages projects in the field of media policy and good governance. Tanja also conducts research and is responsible for the design, methodology of research, writing policy reports and recommendations, and for advocacy work. Although she studied journalism, Tanja has specialised in media monitoring, especially content analysis of media production and the media economy. She is particularly involved in advocating the transparent financing of the media. Tanja graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, and before BIRN she worked for the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and as an associate of the Media Center Belgrade.

Lada Vučenović
joined the BIRN Serbia team in January 2010. As project coordinator, she handles all operational and project matters in the field of media policy and good governance, and also works as a researcher. She graduated from Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the University of Belgrade, where she majored in marketing management and public relations.

Gordana Andrić is Belgrade based journalist and editor. She first joined BIRN as a journalist in 2010 and later worked as a managing editor of BIRN’s English language website Balkan Insight. After spending four years with BBC World Service, she now works with BIRN Serbia. Ms Andric has managed the teams of journalists, investigative reporters and editors from more than ten countries across the Balkans and Black Sea region.

Miodrag Marković is a data journalist at BIRN since 2018. As a journalist and editor, he worked in several daily, periodical and online publications in Serbia. Graduated in journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

Radmilo Marković - Journalist and fact-checker for BIRN Serbia since June 2021 - writing investigative articles on corruption, abuse of public funds, public procurements, illegally constructed buildings. Received an award for investigative journalism in May 2023, for the article (and database) on legalization of illegal buildings in Belgrade. Journalist and associate of Vreme weekly from 2011 to 2023 - Covering economy: macroeconomy (wages, consumption, employment), public finances (state and capital city budget analysis, public debt), public sector (analyzing financial reports of state-owned enterprises), monetary policy (inflation)... Reporting on internal affairs and politics, Serbian parliament; Interviews with dozens of public figures, mostly on economy and politics;Also, editor for Nova.rs (in 2020), journalist at fact-checking site Istinomer (2017-2018).

Aleksa Tešić has been a member of the investigative team at BIRN Serbia since June 2021, focusing on digital security, privacy rights, and personal data protection. He graduated in Journalism and Communication from the Faculty of Political Sciences in 2019. In 2018, he completed a 10-month internship at PRVA TV and worked as an assistant to journalist Suzana Trninić on the show "Odgovor" ("Response"). From January 2020 to May of the following year, he worked in marketing at the agency "Ovation BBDO" as an account executive. Born in Čačak in 1996, he attended elementary and high school there.

Tijana Uzelac is a media researcher and assistant on projects at BIRN Serbia.
She joined the BIRN Serbia team in early 2022 and is engaged in project activities in the fields of media policy and good governance. She is involved in media monitoring and content analysis, as well as contributing to the writing of policy reports and recommendations. Tijana completed her bachelor's and master's studies in journalism and communication at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, and she is currently a doctoral student in media and communication studies.

BIRN Serbia

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is a network of non-governmental organisations promoting freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern and Eastern Europe.

BIRN Serbia’s mission is to advance the country’s political, social and economic transition through the provision of objective and quality information, the training of journalists, and providing assistance for institutional reforms and the public as Serbia moves forward.

BIRN Serbia operates at the forefront of efforts to professionalise the media and civil society, empowering responsible local voices, supporting professional reporting, facilitating dialogue between the most important actors in society, and providing them with the skills needed to foster good governance and public accountability.

BIRN Serbia’s primary fields of operation are media development and good governance.

Reporters without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (Reporter Sans Frontières, RSF) was founded in Montpellier (France) in 1985 by four journalists. It is registered in France as a non-profit organization and has consultant status at the United Nations and UNESCO. RSF advocates for media freedom, supports independent media and protects endangered journalists worldwide. Its missions are

  • To continuously monitor attacks on freedom of information worldwide;
  • To denounce any such attacks in the media;
  • To act in cooperation with governments to fight censorship and laws aimed at restricting freedom of information;
  • To morally and financially assist persecuted journalists, as well as their families.
  • To offer material assistance to war correspondents in order to enhance their safety.

Since 1994, the German section is active in Berlin. Although the German section works closely with the International Secretariat in Paris to research and evaluate media freedom worldwide, it is organizationally and financially independent. In that role, it has applied for a grant at the federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development – in order to finance the Media Ownership Monitor project.

Global Media Registry

The Global Media Registry (GMR) collects, compiles and provides – either publicly available or self-reported – datasets and contextual information on media outlets around the world.

In doing so, the objective is to enhance transparency, accountability and responsibility in the information space. Thus, the GMR facilitates better choices and decision making, both algorithmic and human, of all stakeholders. These may include every citizen and consumer, regulators and donors, as well as the private sector – for example advertisers and intermediaries (a. k. a. platforms and distributors).

By providing this public service as a social enterprise, the Global Media Registry contributes to the advancement of the freedoms of information and expression at large.

It was founded as a spin-off from the Media Ownership Monitor project, which it now operates as a non-for-profit LLC registered under German law.

  • Project by
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    Global Media Registry
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    Funded by European Union