by Olga Brajnović | Nov 21, 2020 | challenges, Journalism
One of the cases more strange I had to write about for my newspaper was the one of a man wrongly accused of the rape of a teenager. The mother of the girl demanded the suspect, who was her relative.The case unveiled a net of modern slavery. At the top was the accuser,...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 23, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
The attorney’s desk was full of legal documents about the case I was investigating as a reporter. It was a corruption scandal involving the president of my region an many other politicians. He was representing one of the plaintiffs. He dismissed as extraneous...
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 19, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
My boss sent me once to a press conference at the headquarters of a political party during a campaign. One big fish from the capital was coming to hold a meeting with his supporters, and before that, he wanted to meet the press. I was a kind of persona non grata in...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 22, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
Sometimes we, reporters, have to do very unpleasant things. Once i had to interview a very sick man in the hospital. He had a throat cancer. He had been accused of a wrongdoing in a corruption scandal in my city but, the more I investigated the case, the more I become...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 1, 2015 | daily prompt
Is it possible to be too honest, or is honesty always the best policy? Over here, we just have come out from an intense electoral campaign. New emergent parties from the left have changed the electoral map. No one has enough majority to rule in most of the regions and...
