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Aleksandra has been working as a journalist for more than three decades. During the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, she was working as a stringer for The Daily Telegraph and Time magazine in the Balkans. In 1996, she joined French news agency AFP, as Balkan correspondent and editor. In late 2014, Aleksandra joined newly-launched Vice Serbia where she worked as a news editor. She was named a service editor for BBC News Serbian in November 2017, a digital platform which is a part of BBC World Service. Aleksandra was one of the founders of the first street magazine in the Balkans “LiceUlice” launched in 2010, and worked voluntarily as its first editor till 2014. Besides journalism, she translated several books and has taken part in and led a number of journalistic workshops.
Chiara holds a bachelor degree in Applied Interlinguistic Communication from the University of Trieste and she is International Cooperation Officer at CO.P.E Cooperazione Paesi Emergenti. Chiara is an international member of the “TAS Migration Labs” project. The non-governmental organization (O.N.G.) CO.P.E. – Cooperation Emerging Countries is a non-profit organization and international volunteer organization. CO.P.E. firmly believes in the importance of stimulating, promoting and strengthening cooperation with the peoples of emerging countries by promoting the material, social, cultural and moral progress of the most disadvantaged individuals and groups and the relations between the North and the South of the World.
Milan Kuzmanović graduated from the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade. He obtained his Master’s degree from the Faculty of Media and Communications from Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, class of 2020, New Media Studies program. He defended his thesis “Presumed Media Effects, Fake News on the Migrant Issue” in January, 2020. This same year, he published a scientific paper titled: “The Hostile Media Effect on the Migrant Issue in Serbia”, in Culture of Polis journal (42nd edition). In addition to media manipulations, he is also interested in international relations, primarily focusing on national minorities in Serbia. He is the co-author of “Lost in the Plain: Untold Stories from the History of Minorities in Vojvodina”, a book on national minorities, published in 2020. Kuzmanović is also a research associate for the Center for Social Stability since 2017, as well as the Svetozar Miletić Foundation since 2020.
INTRODUCTION: Miško Stanišić
co-founder and director, Terraforming
Moderator: Ljiljana Ćumura
Project Manager, Terraforming