by Olga Brajnović | Sep 6, 2020 | challenges, Journalism
Sometimes I feel like I was a grandma telling old tales to her grandchildren over and over again. But there are real stories that happened to me and left a deep track in my life. As a reporter, I had to cover the arrest of some known members of a political party who...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 3, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
As a reporter, I had to deal with information about terrorism and, in my case, above all, about the youngsters who were going to be trained to become terrorists. Life could be pretty dangerous if you were a journalist trying to tell the truth. One year I decided to...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 2, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
When I was in the deepest stage of my depression, my doctor said that I needed to put a distance between my workplace and me. So I packed my belongings and took a flight to the US, crossing the Ocean. I began to work as a freelancer for a news agency in San Francisco,...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 20, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
Before its dramatic fall, Yugoslavia had a very complicated political system. There was no president but a collective presidential institution formed by eight persons, one from each federal republic or autonomous region. Every May 5th, one of them took a turn to be...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 11, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
I’m a reporter, and I live in a region that has been hit by an unmerciful terrorist group during decades. The risk was part of my life if I wanted to do my job honestly. Once, many years ago, I found myself by chance in the middle of a police anti-terrorist...
