Milorad Ivanovic from Belgrade, Serbia, is the deputy editor in chief of national daily Blic, for which he previously served as foreign affairs editor
He has also worked as a correspondent for numerous foreign media and is a member of the regional committee of SCOOP, an investigative journalism project for Southeast Europe.
In 2007 Milorad was awarded with the second prize at the end of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence annual programme for the article “Rich States Poach Former Yugoslavia’s Sporting Talent”.
He looked at top sportsmen and women from the Balkans that are abandoning a career at home, and the lengths to which they go to access training and employment elsewhere in Europe.
His research was supervised by Aleksandar Vasovic, an editor of BIRN’s Balkan Insight publication.
Governments in the region are waking up late to the need for action to halt the flight of their future champions.
The Alumni Network is an ever-expanding group of journalists who have all participated in the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.
The re-emergence of Turkey as a growing economic, political and religious power in the Balkans is the subject of the latest Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence Alumni Initiative project.
Twelve countries, including several Balkan states, have signed up to the European Roma Decade 2005-2015 initiative. Halfway through the decade, has any real progress been made?