Achievements

  • the 1st prize for journalistic contribution to reporting about culture awarded by the Thomson Foundation and the British Council in the category of Collaborative Story for the article “Ženska lica naših ulica u Novom Sadu i Zenici,” which I co-wrote with Serbian journalist Sanja Đorđević, 2025
  • the 2nd prize for journalistic contribution to reporting about culture awarded by the Thomson Foundation and the British Council in the category of Collaborative Story for the tandem multimedia project “One Building, One Million Stories: Hotel Internacional Zenica / The Pyramid of Tirana,” produced with Albanian activist Xhenson Çela, 2025
  • Journalists-in-Residence Fellowship (Vilnius, Lithuania) awarded by the Goethe Institute, 2024
  • Plaque of the Government of Zenica-Doboj Canton awarded to the Naš most Zenica association for its contribution to the development of the Zenica-Doboj region, 2023
  • Plaque of the City of Zenica awarded to the Naš most Zenica association for its notable results that contribute to the social and cultural development of the City of Zenica, 2023
  • Central and Eastern European Journalism Fellowship awarded by the Meridian International Center (US), 2020 – 2022
  • Special plaque of the Srđan Aleksić journalism award for professional reporting on marginalized groups and development of socially responsible journalism, 2020
  • Reporting Democracy Grant awarded by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), 2020
  • UN prize for journalistic contribution to tolerance and inclusive society, equality and prevention of discrimination, 2018
  • UNICEF’s special recognition award for promotion and protection of children’s rights in media, 2018
  • Finalist of the Hostwriter Pitch Prize in collaboration with Indian journalist Priyanka Borpujari, 2018
  • Honourable mention prize for piloting Faketective, an online fact-checking game, awarded by the Resonant Voices Initiative, 2017
  • Jiří Dienstbier Journalism Fellowship (Prague, Czechia) awarded by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 2016 – 2017
  • Intellectual Excellence Program Fellowship (Tokyo, Japan) awarded by the Japan Foundation Tokyo, 2011
  • Policy Research Development Program Fellowship awarded by the Open Society Fund BiH, 2009 – 2010
  • USC Annenberg School of Communication Online Journalism Award for the series of stories “Danger on Your
    Plate” awarded to the reporting team of the Centre for Investigative Reporting, 2007