Dina Đorđević
Dina Đorđević is the deputy editor at CINS and has been an investigative journalist for many years. Since 2023, she has been a member of The Oxford Climate Journalism Network – a network of journalists and editors from around the globe who have undergone a six-month training program on climate change reporting at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. In 2022, Dina was awarded a scholarship within the Fulbright Program for journalists, during which she spent two weeks training in the United States. She was a participant of a regional program for journalistic excellence in 2019 – the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence within the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). Over the course of her career, Dina has mostly worked on stories about the environment, aviation, energy and the arms industry. Stories about air pollution, small hydro-power plants and the copper mine in the City of Bor have been the most successful ones. The series of articles on the violation of arms trade laws and connections in the domestic arms trade industry, that she investigated together with colleagues, "Paths of Serbian Weapons", won third place in the European Union Award for Investigative Journalism in the Western Balkans and Turkey 2023. The series of articles on air pollution in Serbia that she investigated as a CINS journalist won first place in the EU Award for Investigative Journalism in 2021. The stories about small hydropower plants that she worked on as part of a team won several domestic and international awards in 2019 – the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) and Central European Initiative (CEI) special mention award, second place in the EU Award for Investigative Journalism, and the NUNS special recognition award for contribution to investigative journalism. She also won the Marina Kovačev award for best young journalist in Serbia for 2018. As a CINS journalist, she was part of the team that investigated the export of Serbian weapons to Myanmar during the coup in that country, in cooperation with BIRN, Lighthouse and Myanmar Witness. The story that resulted from this cross-border cooperation was nominated in 2022 for the NUNS Award for Investigative Journalism. Dina regularly holds training courses for journalists on building sources, preparing and conducting interviews, researching stories about environmental protection and mobile journalism (MoJo) – in which she shares her knowledge on independent filming and editing. She is the author of short documentaries produced by CINS, in which she reveals people's personal stories and uncovers deeper political and economic issues. She started her career as a TV journalist on TV B92 and in the production group "Mreža". After that, she was a journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of the specialized aviation portal Tango Six. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

Dina Đorđević