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 | Nov 12, 2020 | challenges, Journalism
a blurry image of the demonstrators and the concrete trap. I went to the courthouse like every day, to report about a trial, when I found a demonstration blocking the entrance. A group of youngsters protested against the mandatory military service. Nothing unusual....
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 11, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
Years ago, I went on vacation to a remote town on the Cantabrian coast. I wanted to disappear for a while. I was a journalist, and I had been reporting on issues related to terrorism and urban guerrillas for a long time. I was tired of the pressure in which I lived....
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 28, 2020 | bad luck, Journalism, Memories
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash One of my career achievements was that my colleagues elected me as the Navarra Journalists Association’s first woman president. I was young, and in those years, men still dominated the profession. There were difficult times...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 18, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
My first assignment in my newspaper was education and culture. I love music, which allowed me to interview musicians who visited our city for concerts. Once the Moscow virtuosi, conducted by Vladimir Spivakov, had to perform in our old theatre. I had to interview him,...
