Team

Milica Saric

Director

Milica has been working as an investigative journalist and fact-checker since 2012, while she became Editor-in-Chief of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia in 2018. Since August 2022, she is the director of the Foundation that publishes CINS. She won the EU award for best young investigative journalist in Serbia in 2017, and with the CINS team won the prestigious 2017 European Press Prize for investigative journalism, for a series of articles on the failed fight against corruption in Serbia, as well as the WJP Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism and Dušan Bogavac award for ethics and courage. As a fact-checker she cooperated with the international reporting network OCCRP, and as an external associate she contributes to the Poynter International Fact-Checking Network. She is an Advisory Board member at the Journalismfund Europe.

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Vladimir Kostic

Editor-in-Chief

Vladimir became editor-in-chief at CINS in August 2022. Previously, since 2020, Vladimir worked as the “fast content” editor on the CINS website, which encompasses most of the news, analyses and other stories in the NEWS section. Vladimir previously worked as a journalist and deputy editor at CINS for eight years. With his coworkers, Vladimir won two National Awards for Excellence in Investigative Journalism, the 2017 European Press Prize, the WJP Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism, a Balkan Fact-Checking Award, the EU award for investigative journalism in Serbia in 2019, and other accolades.

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Dinа Djordjevic

journalist and deputy editor-in-chief

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.

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Stefan Markovic

journalist

Stefan joined the CINS investigative team in February 2020. As an investigative journalist, Stefan previously worked at Južne Vesti, and was nominated several times for the national investigative journalism award. He holds a Transparency International School on Integrity certificate. Aside from numerous stories, he also worked on creating CINS’ large database of MPs’ expenses. As a journalist, he also participated in a cross-border project, on a story about the Hungarian government’s donations to the Carpathian region.

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Teodora Curcic

journalist & multimedia producer

Teodora joined the team in 2018 after completing CINS Investigative journalism training course. She took part in creating the database on some 2,800 proceedings that the Serbian Anti-Corruption Agency conducted against public officials. In 2019, this database was shortlisted in the Open Data category for the GEN Data Journalism Award, and is the first example of open data which journalists in Serbia made available in the form of open source code.

Teodora led a CINS team in creating a database titled How Much Does an MP Cost?

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Jovana Tomic

journalist

Jovana has been covering current events for CINS since the beginning of 2020. Before coming to CINS, she spent two years gaining experience at the Internet section of daily Danas. She attended the CINS Investigative Journalism School in 2018, after which she took part in the creation of a database on close to 2,800 proceeding the Anti-Corruption Agency conducted against public officials in Serbia. The database was shortlisted for the GEN Data Journalism award in 2018, in the open data category. Jovana is the winner of the 2020 Marina Kovačev award for best young journalist.

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Ivana Milosavljevic

journalist

Ivana is a graduate student in journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences. After interning at CINS in 2022, she started working for CINS in April 2023. During her studies, she trained at the University of Tennessee in the field of mobile and digital journalism. Before joining CINS, she worked as an executive editor at the Talas portal and as a digital media manager at the Center for Social Dialogue and Regional Initiatives. She attended numerous investigative journalism trainings with a special focus on corruption and misuse of public finances.

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Zoran Miodrag

Head of Audience

Although he graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Zoran did not practice this profession outside of student internships. He has been involved in marketing, digital marketing, graphic design and photography for a decade. He spent most of his professional career in leading publishing houses and the Association of Publishers and Booksellers of Serbia, after which he became a project manager in a company that operates in 13 markets.

He joined CINS in September 2023 and took the head position in the newly formed audience team. He is responsible for all communication and content coming from CINS channels.