Authors of the articles

Dragan Banjac was born in 1955. He worked for many years as a journalist for the Borba newspaper (correspondent from Dubrovnik and a part of Hercegovina) and later for Nasa Borba. For a year, Banjac reported from armed conflicts in Hercegovina and Dubrovnik, while after returning to Belgrade he worked in the internal and political affairs section, where he became an editor. Banjac is the first journalist who during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina entered the sieged city of Sarajevo, Mostar and Tuzla (via Hungary, Italy and the Adriatic Sea). He was a war reporter from Slavonija, later from Kosovo and Metohija. After the closure of Nasa Borba, he has worked as a Belgrade correspondent of a Sarajevo news agency, ONASA, as well as Podgorica newspapers Publika and Vijesti, wrote articles for Monitor, became an editor in Blic (regional section) and a deputy editor-in-chief of Glas Javnosti newspaper, worked as a correspondent for Die Tageszeitung from Zurich... Since last year, Banjac works as a contributor to Republika, where he writes the last page's column entitled "A View From Above". He has no permanent engagement.

Jelena Mickic is professionally active in the field of web communication and the media. She is the author of numerous expert and popular articles related to these areas. She gives lectures at seminars and conferences as well as in the School of Web Journalism. Jelena Mickic is a graduate in linguistics and English literature and has an M.A. in the mass media. She is preparing her PhD in the field of new media and mass communication. She appreciates initiative, positive attitudes and continuous advancement and gladly shares her knowledge with others. In her free time, she travels and engages in photography.

Muharem Mutabdzija was born in 1956 and has worked as a journalist since 1978. He has passed through all journalistic stages, from working as a contributor to becoming the editor, and later editor-in-chief, of the newspaper Polimlje. He is now the director and the editor-in-chief of the company.

He has become renowned for his reporting on economy and works as a contributor for the news agency Beta and Radio B92.

Aleksandar Arsenijevic was born on 13 October 1957 in Cacak, where he completed his primary and secondary education. He graduated in Yugoslavian and world literature from the Faculty of Philology. In 1979 he became a contributor to the newspapers Student and Polet, while in 1996 he began working professionally in journalism, first in the local weekly Cacanski Glas, and later in Cacanske Novine and Radio Ozon. He has worked as a correspondent for Nasa Borba, Danas, Ekonomist, Blic, Alo and Radio Free Europe, and has written articles for the British Institute for War & Peace Reporting. He writes for Cacanske Novine and Novi Magazin. He won the second and third price in 2005 and 2006, respectively, at the public contest for a satirical story "Milivoje Mica Ilic" organized by the editorial office of Branicevo from Pozarevac.

Vesna Opavsky is the head of the web site of the Media Center Belgrade. She has authored several works about internet communication and presence on the internet, and is a lecturer on these subjects. She participated in the 11th International Conference on Scientific Digitalization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, University Repositories and Distance Learning that was held from the 29th September to 2nd October 2011 at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Vesna Opavsky has earned an M.A. degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and is currently preparing her doctoral thesis on internet art. She is active in the field of visual art and has participated in more than 30 exhibitions and artistic workshops and colonies. Aside from these activities, she also works in the field of graphic and web design. Memberships: the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS), the high-IQ society MENSA, Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS), artistic society Umelecká beseda slovenská from Slovakia (UBS), and the artistic association Široka staza. Opavsky.net.

Born in 1955, Vlado Mares began working as a journalist on the Radio Television of Serbia in 1978. He was dismissed in 1992 due to his antiwar and anti-regime opinions. After that, he worked for TV stations Politika and BK, daily newspapers Blic and Demokratija, as well as in the Beta news agency. He was also a correspondent for the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). Mares worked his way from the position of journalist to the position of the editor in chief. He has received the award from the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia for investigative journalism in 2006. Mares has participated in the launch of the public service broadcaster in Bosnia and Herzegovina as an assistant to the international media supervisor.

Started to work as a professional journalist in newspapers “Polimlje” from Prijepolje in 1974. Four years later he was appointed editor-in-chief of Radio Polimlje from Prijepolje, and after that he become a CEO of Radio-broadcasting company “Glas Polimlja“. Since 1980, he was an editor of Radio Vranje. He has cooperated with independent newspapers the "Vranjske" since its founding in 1994. Since 1995, he is a free and independent journalist. He specialized in war and after war events in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedj. Since 2000, he has been a regular freelance correspondent of B 92 Radio and Radio Slobodna Evropa. In March 2001, he was the first Serbian journalist who visited the headquarters of the Albanian extremists and interviewed Sefceta Musli, commandant of the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac. He is an author of the book “South of Serbia after 200 days of war” (2004). He received the award of the Association of Radio and TV Stations of Serbia (1982, Festival of Radio and TV Reporting) and the "Stasa Marinkovic" award for journalistic courage (2001, the Danas). He is a member of Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia.

Goran Milovanovic was born in 1974. He studied mathematics, philosophy and psychology. After graduating in psychology, he is currently in the process of earning a PhD. Milovanovic is a professional and academic researcher in social sciences, and an author and editor of several books dedicated to social consequences of the development of the Internet, the information society and globalization. He has authored several works in the area of experimental cognitive psychology, exploring whether people are rational, how they make decisions under risk, how they reason about cause and consequence, how the mind creates meaning...
Milovanovic grew up in Rome, lived for some time in New York, and if he gets sufficiently annoyed, he may disappear again for a year or two but worry not – he will always come back to Belgrade. He is post-ideologically oriented: he believes that the political division between the left and right has not been relevant at least since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and most likely since 1968. If necessary, he is a revolutionary; in politics, he despises uniform thinking and superficiality and believes in free will and good will. In private life, he is a well-known Belgrade grouch, while in his heart he is a punker who values freedom above everything else.
www.milovanovicresearch.com

Jasna Kamatovic lives and works in Novi Sad and has more than 15 years of experience in marketing and market communication. In the last few years, she has been professionally engaged in business applications of the Internet and electronic commerce, trading and communication. She is the author and editor of the web site selected as one of the 50 best web sites in Serbia in 2009 by the magazine PC Press in the category of technology. Jasna Kamatovic is the creator, editor and one of the authors of the company blog Pozitiva, as well as the creator and editor of the web site dedicated to specific needs of women in the area of IT: Zenski IT kutak.

"Unlike in the field of music, where I am self-taught, unfortunately, I became involved with journalism as a highly schooled worker; I graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Science. However, music was prevalent for a long time since it used to bring more satisfaction and better income. Although I have been working since 1977 (in the magazine Ekonomska Politika), I began writing a significant number of articles only during the nineties (in the magazine Vreme). Soon thereafter I left for the USA, where I stayed for three years. I worked in the delivery of a local magazine during one of these summers, which was the only even remotely journalism-related job I had at the time. During my stay in the USA, I played music in theaters, made muffins in a famous Philadelphia bakery, sold ice cream in the street. After returning to my homeland in 1996, if I remember correctly, I began writing for Vreme magazine. On the eve of democratic changes, the magazine published my selected works in a form of a book entitled Groblje Slonova (Elephants' Graveyard). I used to write for Yellow Cab for 7-8 years, as well as a weekly commentary entitled "L. Zivkov's Rear View Mirror" for TV B92 for eight years. In the course of 7-8 years, I was writing a column in the Blic newspaper (on the last page of the financial section). I write for the web site Istinomer.rs (a column under the title "L. Zivkov's Rear View Mirror II") as well as for Pescanik. People's City Library in Zrenjanin has published my late selected works under the title "Pikardijska Terca". I saw the book at the book fair in Belgrade, and I hope that it was a new edition, instead of unsold inventory. I play and record music for which I hope will one day become more significant in my career than my journalistic achievements. I was born in 1952 in Farkaldino near Zrenjanin. Although born in a family of partisans, I was raised in the anti-governmental spirit, the effects of which I feel to this day."

She worked as the editor-in-chief of Radio-Television Bajina Basta between 2000 and 2008.
Since 2008 she has been the director and the editor-in-chief of the station.

Sasa Mirkovic was born in 1967. He graduated from the law faculty at the University of Belgrade. Sasa Mirkovic is one of the founders of Radio B92, one of the first independent broadcasters in Serbia, which began production in 1989. Between 1989 and 2003 he worked as music editor, director of programmes and general manager of Radio Television B92. He served as president of B92' s board of directors and a member of the board from 2003 until 2007. Since 2007 Mirkovic has been the president of Trust B92 Ltd. (the biggest shareholder in B92) and the broadcaster's director for external communications. Sasa Mirkovic was one of the founders of ANEM (the association of independent electronic media) in 1993. Since 2006 he has been the president of ANEM.

Nada Budimovic was born in 1958 in Krusevac, where she completed high school. She graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade and has been working in the field of journalism for 25 years in local media in Krusevac, first as a journalist and later as an editor of the First and Second Channels of Radio Krusevac and Radio and TV Rubin. Budimovic is the editor of the political section of the local weekly magazine GRAD. She has worked as a correspondent for Politika, Ekonomist, Akter from Novi Sad, BBC's service in Serbian language, and now is a correspondent for the BETA agency. Budimovic is active in the non-governmental sector, most of all in the association of women "Pescanik". She was a trainer in the programme "Women Can Do It In the Media" and a coordinator of several projects within the environmental movement "Bela Breza".

Ljubisa M. Bojic is a philosopher, scientist and producer from Serbia. As a president of the Executive Board of the Positive Center for Digital Media, Bojic is managing the global research about dependence on the media and the index of the media's correspondence with reality, which includes a research on media usage and analysis of social media. He has written the book "Cultural Organism: The Mass Media and Freedom" ("Kulturni organizam: mas mediji i sloboda"). Bojic has earned his PhD from the Institute of Political Study in Lyon, France. He is the executive director of the production company Reptilianum. Bojic was born in Kragujevac on 6 September 1983.

Zlatoje Martinov is a journalist, publicist, writer of short prose, literary critic, essayist, and is active in the field of literature translation. He has published several books, translations of domestic works of literature into Esperanto, as well as numerous articles in literary and other magazines. He is a contributor to Republika. Lives in Belgrade.

Her first attempt, as a high school student, at writing an article in a youth newspaper resulted in her being examined by the security service. She entered professional journalism in 1989 in the "Pancevac" newspaper. At the same time she worked for Radio Pancevo in the programme "Kontrabanda" and the night segment edited by Ofelija Backovic. Since 1992 she has been working as an editor of the city section in the newly founded newspaper "Novi Pancevac". During the nineties she was a correspondent for "Borba", "Nasa Borba", "Danas", "Demokratija", as well as "Vreme", "NIN" and "Nezavisne". She was a contributor to the cultural show "Naslov" aired on TV Belgrade. In 1997, Nevena Simendic began working for RTV Pancevo, first as an editor of the political section, and later, between 1998 and 2002, as a deputy editor-in-chief of TV Pancevo. She was a deputy programe director from 2002 to 2004. Since March 2004 she has been the editor-in-chief of TV Pancevo.

Corporate communications consultant, specializing in online communications. Half geekette, half art loving information junkie of relatively questionable sanity. Native languages are English, Serbian and Portuguese. Also speaks Spanish, Italian and French. Managing partner at Krazy Fish Consulting with offices in Serbia and Croatia.

Bratislav Ilic graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Belgrade and has worked as a journalist since 1990. He is a correspondent from Southern Serbia for RTV B92 and Press daily newspaper, as well as an editor of the news programme at the local station TV Klisura in Leskovac. He is a representative of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) in six municipalities of the Jablanicki District. He wrote articles for the newspaper Student and worked as a reporter for TV Studio B and TV Fox. Bratislav Ilic has received several awards for his reporting, among them: the Special Award for the piece entitled "They Say That the Sea is Big and Blue" and the International Festival of Documentary Films "The Golden Beggar" in Kosice, Slovakia (co-production with TV Fox and Tanja Vidojevic); the First Prize at the Festival of Associated TV Stations in Vrnjacka Banja in 2006 for his piece entitled "It's No One's Fault"; the Second Prize for TV Reporting in 2003 at the Festival of Associated TV Stations of Serbia and Montenegro for his investigative piece "The Humane Cellar". The same work also won an award at the festival in Kragujevac. His work entitled "The Closed Door" won the Second Prize at the Festival of Associated TV Stations in 2004 and the second prize at a festival in Bulgaria. At the international TV festival in Kosice, Slovakia, his piece entitled "Stone and Bread" was ranked among ten best international works out of 468 submitted pieces. He won the award "Goose Feather" from the Association of Croatian Journalists for courage demonstrated in reporting from the field. After presentation of a TV package at a 3-stage contest organized by the BBC, he was selected for a study trip to Brussles between June 10 and June 20, 2011.

Milena Jerkov was born in 1980 in Subotica and has lived in Novi Sad since childhood. She studied physics, meteorology and the modeling of environment and graduated from the the Department of Media Management at the Faculty of Management. She spent a school year performing professional advancement at the journalistic school of the University of Missouri as a recipient of scholarship from the Embassy of the USA. She has also attended numerous journalistic schools and courses. Milena Jerkov is passionate about the Internet, digital media, new technologies and social networks. She is trying to learn as much as possible about the online market and financial sustainability of the content in the digital media. She has an excellent knowledge of audio, video and photo editing, as well as the basics of programming. Since 1999, she has been employed at Radio 021 in Novi Sad. At the moment, she is editing a news portal in Novi Sad and writes articles for other online media outlets in Serbia and abroad.

Sasa Trifunovic was born in Bor, in Eastern Serbia, in 1965. He graduated from the high school in Bor in 1985, where he trained to be journalist-contributor. He completed the professional training course on economic reporting organized by Dow Jones Newswires, the course on reporting about organized crime organized by the Media Center Sarajevo, as well as several professional seminars organized by OSCE. He has worked as a founder and the editor-in-chief of the Press Center East Media in Bor since 2009. Sasa Trifunovic has organized several training courses for journalists in Bor and Zajecar which were funded by OSCE, IREX, the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) and PGMreza. Between 1988 and 1997 he worked as a contributor to Radio Bor, and during various periods as a correspondent for Beta news agency (since 1996), daily newspaper Glas Javnosti, and daily newspaper Blic. He has been a correspondent for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) since 2007. He is a member of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and the representative of NUNS for Eastern Serbia. He is a founder of the non-governmental organization Pistaljka (The Whistle) which promotes development and advancement of the civil society through cultural activities, mass sports, strengthening of civic awareness about marginalized and ethnic groups, improvement of environmental protection, and environmental campaigns and promotion of tourism in the municipality of Bor.

Ivan Recevic is the chief financial officer and one of the founders of the consulting company Gaia Consulting. He has 15 years of experience on the Internet, 10 years of experience in management of projects in the country and abroad, and has worked independently for three years. He has worked as a consultant and manager in the company Capgemini Outsourcing in Serbia, and as the IT manager in Schneider Electrica and the Robert Bosch company. Ivan Recevic is one of the founders of the Huge Media agency. He works as a financial director and strategist for defining and creation of platforms for clients. His views on consulting and marketing are available on blogs of the companies Huge Media and Gaia Consulting.

Vojislav Stevanovic worked as an editor in the Ekonom:east Media Group. Since 2011 he has worked in online communications in Erste Bank Novi Sad. He is a member of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS).

Nexhat Behluli was born in May 1968 in Bujanovac and graduated from the School of Commerce in Prizren. He has never worked as a professional journalist. He is the president of the privately-owned family company Elhan Commerce which is active in various fields: construction material trade, construction business, transport, purchase of waste paper, providing of cable services, internet providing, maintenance and insurance of VIP Mobile base stations and base stations in the south of Serbia, and real estate. The company also operates TV Spektri which is licensed by the Republic Broadcasting Agency and broadcasts programme in Albanian language. Nexhat Behluli is the editor-in-chief of the station. He writes columns and opinions for daily newspapers in Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. He has been physically attacked several times and regularly receives threats on a daily basis. Police has been informed about several such cases.

Nikola Markovic is the president of the Informatics Society of Serbia, the editor of the ICT Service of Tanjug news agency, and a contributor to magazines PcPress, Biznis i Finansije etc. He graduated from the Faculty of Economy and has 40 years of experience in the IT field. He worked as a professor in the Information Technology School in Belgrade and the director of the Federal IT Agency. His activities have included the following projects: organization of the IT system of the City of Belgrade; development of the federal IT system; preparation of the Strategy of IT Development in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY); web presentation of the FRY; preparation of several laws in the field of IT etc. Nikola Markovic has published around 100 studies and received the IT Globus 2007 award and the E-business Special Award 2010. He is a member of the team of experts for IT that participates in preparation of the Serbian Encyclopedia published by the Serbian Academy of Science (SANU) and Matica Srpska.

Tatjana Tagirov was born in 1961 in Zagreb. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb and has worked as professional journalist since 1986, with the exemption of two years of legal practice. During her career she has worked for numerous print and electronic media outlets in ex-Yugoslavia, including news agencies. She has been living in Belgrade since 2000 and writes for the weekly magazine Vreme.

Head of the Beta News Agency correspondent office for Vojvodina.
Correspondent of Radio DW.
President of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina.
Senior associate at the Department of Media Studies of the Philosophical Faculty in Novi Sad

Born on October 15, 1946 in Belgrade. Popovic graduated in electrical engineering. In the beginning of 1972, he started working as a developer in EI – Factory of Electronic Devices "Pionir". Between 1973 and his retirement in 2003, he worked as an operator, methodologist and analyst in the control and measurement service of the Federal Administration for Radio Connections and Communications. He is a years-long president of the commission for standards for radio transmitters and a member of other radio-standards commissions. After retirement, he wrote and published more than 80 short articles in "Politika" (in the column "Medju nama") and other newspapers.

Nedim Sejdinovic was born in Tuzla in 1972. He authored the book "One Piligrimage Too Many". Sejdinovic is a contributor to Gradjanski List, Dnevnik, CKM, Pobjeda, Helsinki Charter, Vreme... He was the editor in chief of the weekly "Nezavisni" and later the editor in chief of the "Bulevar" magazine. Sejdinovic is the secretary general of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina.

Nevenka Antic is an international expert in intellectual property law and human rights, especially in intellectual property and human right in the field of information and communication technology. She is also the Creative Commons Serbia Legal Project Lead, the legal advisor to WikiMedia Serbia, and a consultant to artistic associations and non-governmental organizations in the area of Internet and human rights, and has authored articles and presentations on human rights, copyright, and digital copyright trends. Nevenka Antic has graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, International Department, and passed her bar exam in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia.

Born in Vranje on August 24, 1972, lives in Bujanovac. Lazic has been working in "Vranjske" weekly magazine since 2002, when he began working as a journalist. In 2008 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine. He is a regular contributor to Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, and has also worked as a correspondent from southern Serbia for Radio Deutsche Welle and a contributor to the Economist magazine. Lazic's articles have been published by "Vreme" and "Danas". He received the award "Pavle Cirovic" for the best article published in local press in 2008. Lazic is married and has two children.

A dramatist, film critic and theorist. Born in Belgrade in 1972, after the season of variola vera. Vesna Peric made a U-turn in her education when she abandoned the study of civil engineering and transferred to the Faculty of Dramatic Arts during the civic protests. She attended the course entitled Culture and Gender Studies organized by AAOM in 2000/2001. She wrote articles about film and cyber-culture for magazines XZabave, Reporter, com_medi@, and later for the Second Channel of Radio Belgrade, where she has been employed since 2005, first as a film critic and author of shows and items on film, and currently as an editor of the Dramatic Programme section. She has also worked on FEST Chronicles for the Radio-Television Serbia (RTS), written essays for the Cultural Section of the Politika daily newspaper, and published poetry in the magazines Profemina, Belgrade Literary Magazine (Beogradski Knjizevni Casopis) and Literature (Knjizevnost). Vesna Peric has authored several dramas produced by Radio Belgrade, and attended film workshops at the Sarajevo Talent Campus 2008. She has published science articles in the Journal of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and is working on her PhD at the Department of Film and Media Study, where she received her MA degree. Her love for film has not been realized yet, but is still unconditional. She has a daughter, Milja.

Born on June 8, 1946 in Blato on Korcula island. Cetinic graduated from the Faculty of Economy in Belgrade in 1969. He worked for 20 years in the Yugoslavian Bank for International Economic Cooperation in positions of a head of a sector and the senior economist. Specialty: promotion and funding of exports. Today, Cetinic works as an independent media consultant. In 1992 and 1993 he was a contributor to Vreme. Cetinic is a member of the Managing Board of Borba and Nasa Borba. From 1998 to 2008 he worked as an IREX consultant for economy of the media. Since 2002 Cetinic works as an organizer of annual analyses of the media situation in Serbia, the "Media Sustainability Index" (MSI). He is the author of numerous analyses of media problems in Serbia.

Dr Jovanka Matic is an expert consultant in the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade. She graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Science (1978), received her M.A. in communication studies from the Canadian Simon Fraser University (1985) and her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Political Science in 2006. She is active in the field of media research and is the author of numerous studies and science articles. Matic is the co-author of the book "TV Screen and Elections" and the author of "Television Against Voters", a book that analyzes the TV presentation of elections in Serbia in the period 1990-2000.

Jovanka Marovic was born in 1966 in Kragujevac, where she completed primary and high school and graduated from the Faculty of Law. In 1985 she began working as a contributor to the magazine Svetlost and Radio Kragujevac, becoming a full-time employee of Svetlost in 1994. She was a member of the editorial office that founded the Nezavisna Svetlost magazine in 1995, whose editor in chief she was between 1998 and 2001. She worked as a chief editor of Radio Kragujevac between December 2004 and November 2005, when she was appointed a programme director of Radio TV Kragujevac. In the end of 2008 she was appointed the director of Radio TV Kragujevac, when she also became the main editor of TV Kragujevac. Jovanka Marovic has published articles in weekly magazines Vreme and Evropa. She is a member of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia since its inception and served as a member of the Executive Board of the Association.

Editor and host of the Radio Belgrade 2 author programme "Digital Icons" and a cultural magazine "Cultural Circles". She graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (Comparative Linguistics) in 1996 and continued her education in journalistic seminars organized by Deutsche Welle, WDR and ANEM in Belgrade and Sofia. In 2005 she was one of the ten recipients of IREX scholarships and graduated from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade on the subject of "Journalism in Electronic Media". In July 2009 in Berlin (as a recipient of the scholarship awarded by the German Ministry of Internal Affairs) she completed a seminar on management intended for women who are editors in Southeastern Europe media outlets. Since 2002 she works as an editor and host of the programme "Digital Icons" (Tuesday, 9-9.55h), an educational programme with a unique concept in our media scene, dedicated to new technologies in culture, art and science , analysis of phenomenons in these areas and their influence on our everyday life.

Born in Pec in 1960. Rakovic graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade in 1983. He began working as a journalist in the youth and student press (Omladinske Novine, Mladost, Student, Stav...). Between 1983 and 2001 he worked as a journalist and editor in a trade union weekly magazine Rad. In the period 2001-2007, Rakovic was an editor of the internal affairs section in the daily newspaper Danas. He cooperated with the daily newspaper Ekspres Politika (until 1989) and weekly magazines Duga, NIN, Osmica... Rakovic is a co-author of the monograph "15 Years of the Trade Union Nezavisnost". Since September 2007 he has been working as a secretary general of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia.

Stojan Markovic graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1981 (film and television producer). During the eighties he worked as a TV producer on TV Sarajevo and later (in 1990) became the director of the Cultural Centre in Cacak. He worked as an editor in chief of Radio GEM in Gornji Milanovac and Radio Ozon Plus (Chicago, USA); today he is the editor of Radio Ozon (Cacak) and the newspaper Cacanske Novine. Markovic is a member of the Managing Board of Local Press. He acquired wide-ranging experience in numerous media projects funded by the Ministry of Culture, IREX, Press Now...

Director of the Beta news agency. Born in Belgrade in 1948, she graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, department of General Literature and the Literal Theory, in 1972. In the same year, she began working for the Tanjug news agency. In 1984, Markovic studied at the Stanford University in the USA with the aim to achieve professional advancement. She worked as a full-time Tanjug correspondent from Rome, Italy, in 1985-1989. She left Tanjug after the agency fell under the influence of the autocratic regime. With a group of journalists, she founded an independent news agency – Beta. During the period 1994-2000 she worked as the editor-in-chief of Beta. She has been the director of the Beta Press company since 2000. jubica Markovic is one of the founders of the Forum of International Affairs (1995) within the European Movement in Serbia. She was the president of the Association of Private Media (APM) in 2000-2003; a member of the Media Task Force of the Stability Pact during 2000-2003; a member of the Managing Board of the Fund for an Open Society in Serbia during the period 2003-2006; a member of the national team of the Central European Initiative (CEI) since 2008; and a member of the Danube Media Network since 2010. She authored the journalistic handbook The Beta Story (How to Establish a News Agency), MDLF, Prague, 2000, and won the Italian Premio Calabria award for professional courage and contribution to free journalism in Serbia in 2000.

Born in January 1957 in Kovin, he made his first radio show for the Radio Kovin in 1975 while still in the high school, after which he became addicted to the profession. Still, he graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (just for the case), and worked as a manual worker for the local brick manufacturer, as well as a math and physics teacher for high school students. Radovic also spent some of his time working on roads around Kovin, and a whole day laboring on corn fields (which is incredibly difficult). He worked as a tourist guide, played various roles in the Amateur Theatre in Kovin, hosted entertainment and satirical programmes on the radio, and tried his hand in creating first "modern" advertisements... Radovic began his career while still a student (he graduated when it became embarrassing being an editor to people with higher education than his own) and worked his way through the complete journalistic hierarchy: from a speaker and technician to a local journalist to the parliamentary correspondent. Later he worked as an editor, columnist and the editor in chief of Radio Kovin and the Kovinske Novine newspaper, after which he became the director of "Informativni Centar". At the same time, he cooperated with Radio Novi Sad, Vecernji List daily from Zagreb and various newspapers and magazines (Borba, Nasa Borba, Politikin Bazar and others). He used to write love stories (which he does even today...). In the meantime, Radovic managed to win several journalistic and editorial awards – the ones that were decided by professionals, not politicians. In 2006, he left "Informativni Centar" and later founded the news and publishing company VID VESTI d.o.o. He publishes the local newspaper Kovin Eskpres, whose monthly issues are complemented by the web site www.kovinekspres.rs. Radovic is a blogger, writing under the pseudonym Novinarska Patka (False News) at the web address blog.kovinekspres.rs. He loves social networks and his Twitter and Facebook accounts are always active (which is a bit unusual for a man in his age).

Velimir Curgus, born in 1948, has been the director of Ebart Consulting since 2002. He has worked as a journalist and the director of the cultural section of Politika newspaper between 1988 and 1996. Before that, he served for eight years as an editor and initiator of publishing activities in the Research and Publishing Youth Center in Belgrade. He is one of the founders of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia. Curgus has authored a dozen of books of prose and essays on the subject of culture and cultural policy. His essays and books have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Japanese and several other languages. He has prepared several books about the relationship between the media, politics and culture and has prepared several projects related to research of the media and culture. In 2000, Velimir Curgus has received the Lettre International Essay Award in Weimar. He has been a member of the Serbian PEN Center since 1987. Among other things, he is active in painting, especially using combined techniques on paper, and has organized five independent exhibitions. Velimir Curgus has written two scenarios for short films.

Milos Vasic was born in January 1947 in Belgrade, to a poor but honest family of intellectuals persecuted by repressive regimes because of their progressive ideas. Education: Sixth Grammar School in Belgrade (1965); the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (with six exams remaining); policing course in the city Secretariat of Internal Affairs (three months); worked for 18 months as a police officer in the general and traffic department. Professional career: tourist guide (with a diploma); professional driver; police officer in the field; since autumn 1969 Vasic has worked as a professional journalist, first in TV Zagreb (reporter, implementer, author of stories and assistant to directors Angel Miladinov and Toni Marti); part-time reporter for UPI (1971); secretary of the Belgrade International Theatrical Festival; correspondent to "Tribuna" from Ljubljana between 1975 and 1990; weekly magazine NIN's journalist (700 weeks). Since 1990, Milos Vasic has been one of the founders and journalists of the "Vreme" weekly magazine. He has been the vice president and president of the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (1997-2000) and has actively participated in activities of non-governmental organizations IWPR (Balkan War Report; member of the Managing Board until 1996) and Transition Toward Democracy (1996-today) etc. Milos Vasic has won the city of Belgrade's April Award (former October Award) for journalism; in 2003 he received the "Stasa Marinkovic" award for journalistic courage. He has also won the following awards: Center for Modern Policy's "Icebreaker of the Year" in 2004; "Jug Grizelj" award for investigative journalism in 2004; Karic Brothers' Foundation's annual award for publishing in 2005; "Journalist of the Year" award in 2007 of the "Status" magazine. Vasic has worked as a columnist in the daily newspaper "Danas" since September 1997. He has been a regular columnist covering organized crime, the police and security since November 2008 at the Croatian web portal T-Portal by Telecom Croatia.

Stevan Majstorovic has been an IT columnist of the domestic magazine "Internet Ogledalo" (the leading magazine in the Balkans covering the Internet) since 1999 and for the last ten years has been writing a column on JavaScript (which is the technological foundation of the web 2.0). He has also published "advocacy" articles on web services, trends in web technologies, new media, the usability and IT architecture. Majstorovic has also worked as a consultant for Icon MediaLab from Milan. He is also a web entrepreneur (Majlab) since 2005. In the last decade, he has lectured at several local and regional IT events and seminars, where he has mostly discussed the trends in web technologies. Majstorovic is the founder of the first domestic OpenCoffee club (open, periodic gatherings of web entrepreneurs).

Dragan Kremer (b. `60, Zemun), for 20 years had a career of a free lance journalist (magazines, radio, dailies) the lenght and width of then Yugoslavia and succeeding countries. In later stage, provided the independence by working for marketing agencies. Since 1999 employed by international media assistance/development agencies: Internews in BiH, IREX ProMedia in BiH then in Serbia (as Media advisor, Deputy/Acting COP). Since Spring 2007 with Swiss NGO medienhilfe as Program Manager/Consultant for West Balkans & Roma media.

A graduate of a drama school, undergraduate teatrologist, unsuccessful actress on her volition and successful theatre critic using other people’s interpretations, a journalist of almost every national cultural redaction and editor of cultural sections in magazines in Novi Sad, placed all her certificates in drawers at the beginning of 2002 and sat opposite her husband in their mutual publishing house VEGA media. A few years and thousands of books later , when she discovered blogs at the beginning of 2007, it turned out that the life was a mother to someone, but to her it was Internet: she started to write blogs intensively and utilise social networks professionally and use her passion for writing in new techniques of writing for Internet, promoting new techniques like HEO copywriting (Human Eye/Emotion Optimization). Today, she is triple personality regarding her professional life.: she is still an editor-in-chief in VEGA media, and, also, creative director of the team working agency Kolegijum and a founder and director of annual event BlogOpen, and uses feminine forms of nouns on purpose.

Snjezana Milivojevic is a full professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the Belgrade University, the director of the Center for Media Research and a member of the Academic Council of the Center for Women's Studies, as well as an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, University of Georgia, Westminster University, UCL, Sussex University, LSE, University in Milan, University in Ljubljana, University in Sofia etc. Milivojevic is a co-author of Ecranisation of Choice and the author of the book Media Monitoring Manual and Television in Europe – Serbia.

Miloje Sekulic was born in 1966. in Belgrade. He is an engineer and a journalist. Sekulic is a member of the Independent Journalists' Association and the PR Association of Serbia. He is the director of the Online PR Department in the agency McCann Erickson Public Relations. Sekulic has completed postgraduate studies "Modern Business Operations and Global Computer Networks" at the Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAOM) and the London School of PR (LSPR), where he teaches E-PR in the region. He is a co-founder of the IT & internet consulting agency VEZA. During his journalistic career in the magazines Ekskluziv, Zica, COM and Ekonomist, he has worked to popularize use of the internet in business operations and everyday life. Sekulic was the director and the editor in chief of "e-magazine". Since 2009 he has worked as the director of online publishing in the Futuremedia company. He has received the "Internet Domacin" award from the Internet Club (2004).

Branislava Opranovic was born in an urban and multicultural family. She studied German language and literature in Novi Sad and at the Faculty of Political Science (journalism) in Zagreb, graduating in the subject of Hate Speech in Print Media ("Dnevnik", "Politika" and "Vecernje Novosti" during the war in former Yugoslavia). Opranovic has worked in the field of journalism for 27 years in the newspapers "Dnevnik", "Nasa Borba", "Danas", "Nezavisni", "Vijesti" (as a correspondent from Vojvodina)... Due to her antiwar activities during the reign of Slobodan Milosevic she left "Dnevnik" and returned only after the changes of October 5th. Branislava Opranovic cooperates with the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization. She lectures at the Novi Sad School of Journalism and at the media department of the Faculty of Management in Novi Sad. She speaks Hungarian and German languages and is one of the authors of the book: "Novi Sad 1784-1999 – From a Royal City To Destruction". Opranovic is a member of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina, the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia and international journalistic associations SEEMO and IFJ.

Born in Sofia, she graduated radio and TV journalism from the St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia. Between 1990 and 2003 she worked as the head of the Radio Free Europe correspondents' office. As a war reporter she was tasked with reporting from the region of the former Yugoslavia. After the closure of the Bulgarian section of the Radio Free Europe she began working for BBC where she remained until the closure of the BBC section in Bulgarian language. Stojneva Jurukova has been a correspondent of Vojna TV and Darik Radio since 2005. She works as a counselor for media and European integrations for the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD). She is married and lives in Belgrade.

Born in Zagreb, in today's Republic of Croatia, in 1945. Tamara Kaliterna graduated in sociology in Belgrade. She began her career in journalism while studying. Between 1968 and 1975 she worked for the weekly "Ekonomska Politika" and later – until 1995 – in the foreign policy section of the news agency Tanjug, first as a journalist, then as an editor. She has also worked for the FoNet agency. Since 1966 she has been an editor in the then-opposition daily newspaper "Danas". Among other engagements, she used to write regularly for the Belgrade monthly "Republika", the weekly "Nedjelja" from Sarajevo, weeklies "Nezavisne" i "Bulevar" from Vojvodina, as well as "Monitor" from Montenegro. She is a contributor to the web sites of Pescanik and the Helsinki Charter. The rest of her professional biography can be found on the Internet.

Anicic is an IT engineer born in 1974 in Novi Sad. Since 1998 he has actively and professionally been working in the fields of creating complete and high-quality web presence, web and interface design, internet marketing, web standards, design and development of web and desktop applications. Anicic is a founder and editor of the e-zine "Personal Magazine". He is the editor in chief of the localized edition of the American PC Magazine, and a regular contributor to IT magazines "Ekonomist / Ebit", "Internet Ogledalo", "Taboo In the World of Marketing", "Auto Start"... He is currently working as a web editor in the Color Press Group where he coordinates work on more than 20 web sites and 4 major specialized web portals. Anicic is a regular lecturer at the journalistic-editorial school CPG covering the subject "The Internet for Journalists". He personally owns a dozen of web locations and blogs, out of which the most high-profile is the blog "Svakodnevnica". More than 3000 blog posts have been published during 6 years of blogging.

Aida Corovic was born on 1961 in Novi Pazar. Between 1986 and 1992 she participated in archaeological and architectural research in Novi Pazar and the surrounding area. During the eighties, she was publishing an art critic's column in the newspaper "Likovni Zivot", after which she worked on RTV "Politika", "Studio B" and "Channel Three". In 1997, Corovic founded a non-governmental organization in Novi Pazar, "URBAN-IN", where she is the director. She has participated in numerous and significant programs and projects.

A specialist for viral marketing, Pavlovic authored viral campaigns for VestiSrbija.com, Make Your Own Government, JaHrvatskiPredsjednik.com and many others. He is a co-founder and brand manager of one of the most visited news portals in Serbia, Tracara.com, and a young portal, Blejac.com. He is a professor of web design on the BK Academy and owns "Worldwide", a web consulting agency. Pavlovic authored online campaigns for brands like Jelen Pivo, Fashion Company, the Democratic Party, Fox TV, Stark, Grand Coffee. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade.

Born in Nis in 1965. She has been working as a journalist since 1986, first in the Nis correspondent's office of Vecernje Novosti, later as the editor in chief of the student magazine "Pressing". She believes it to be if not the biggest, then the most creative success in her career, because together with a team of talented colleagues she managed to create one of the best and most socially engaged student magazines during the nineties. Since 1997 Radivojevic has worked in RTV5 from Nis, first as an editor of the news programme, a host of several hard-hitting shows, and later as the editor in chief and (since August 2007) the director of RTV5.

In the period 1996-2004 he worked as a journalist, editor and host at Radio B92. Bukumirovic is the founder and the first editor of sport.b92.net web pages. As a long -time radio journalist, he has reported on all major public protests in Serbia. Since 1998 he has worked as a part-time reporter and political analyst on events in Serbia for the Dutch national TV and Radio NOS. Bukumirovic has worked part-time for the independent news agency BETA, Reuters agency and Sky News. Since 2004 he has been a project manager in the Wireless Media web company, where he is also the editor in chief of the Mondo web portal. During his first four years in Wireless Media, he headed the launch of web portals in four countries. Since 2009 he has lectured online journalism at the Media and Communications Faculty in Belgrade. He has completed the course of journalism of the Reuters Foundation in London and the course on investigative journalism at the Duke University in the USA.

Between 1997 and 2001, Tamara Skrozza worked as a journalist and editor in Radio Index. Since 2000, she has been employed in the weekly "Vreme", writing for all sections of the magazine. Aside from this, Skrozza works as an editor of an educational teenage magazine NAJ and has participated in filming of several documentary films made by the production group "Mreza" and the TV production section of the "Vreme" weekly. Occasionally she writes for the magazines "Grazia", "Elle", "Status" and "Link". She is the author of a book of insider journalistic columns "Nothing Left Out" ("Sve po spisku"). Skrozza teaches at seminars on media ethics, the status of women in the media and writing for the media.

Velibor Todorov was born on February 21, 1972 in Zajecar. He graduated from the Faculty of Economy and began working in RTV Zajecar. Between 2002 and 2005 he was the financial and commercial director of RTV Zajecar, while in the period 2005-2010 he was the executive director of the same company. Today, Todorov works as the director of the Historical Archive of Timocka Krajina in Zajecar. In 2003, 2004 and 2005 he was awarded the title of the manager of the year at the local and regional media level. Todorov is a member of the team for privatization of IREX. During his management of RTV Zajecar, he has submitted and implemented more than 20 projects; two of the most significant ones were the "Media Fund" projects in 2007 and 2010. In recent years RTV Zajecar has been one of the best regional media outlets in Serbia. Todorov is married and has two sons.

Born on January 3, 1982, Ognjanovic has been a senior undergraduate of the Faculty of Electronics in Nis for several years and most certainly is an internet addict. He is an organizer of biZbuZZ (www.bizbuzz.rs), a director of Simplicity d.o.o. (www.simplicity.rs) and a columnist of Southern News (www.juznevesti.com), where he is one of the project leaders. He enjoys straightforward communication with people. In his free time, Ognjanovic is a bohemian (www.mojakafana.com), and some even consider him a poet (forbidden.blog.rs). Brutally honest, he hates complex-ridden persons and everything that surrounds them.

Jovanovic was born on February 17, 1960 in Belgrade. She earned her degree from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade in 1983, at the department of journalism. Between 1984 and 1997 she worked for a trade union newspaper "Rad" in several positions, from journalist to editor. Between 1997 and 2007 Jovanovic edited the national affairs section and worked as a chief of desk in the daily newspaper "Danas". She received the journalistic award "Nikola Burzan" from the "Danas" daily for investigative journalism and journalistic courage. Jovanovic is the editor of the national affairs column in "Beta" news agency and edits the "Dosije" publication issued by the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia.

Obradovic was born on April 18, 1962 in Vranje. He graduated in 1987 at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade, at the department of journalism. During the studies he worked for several youth newspapers: "Student", NON, "Mladost" and "Stav". He worked in "Politika Ekspres" between 1989 and 1993. After quitting his job due to disagreements over the editorial policy, he launched the "Vranjske" newspaper in 1994, a local weekly that was the only independent media outlet in south Serbia until 2000. Obradovic received several awards for his journalistic works: "Dusan Bogavac", "Jug Grizelj" and "Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic". He works as a director and editor-in-chief of "Vranjske".

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