by Olga Brajnović | May 28, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, our life
A friend of mine has died. I just read about him in the news. We worked together for 26 years in my newspaper. He was a photographer. I was a writer. We began to work the same year and used to go along to many places to do our job as reporters, he with his camera, me...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 21, 2020 | challenges, Journalism
Many years ago, I was working in newsroom plenty of typewriters, with a teletypes room and a lot of noise. Phones ringing, the bells of the teletype announcing hot news that made us run to see what was all about, people talking and shouting (oh how I miss that...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 15, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories, photography
When the democracy was too young in Spain, I was a too young reporter in a dangerous city because we had many separatists, supporters of a violent terrorist group, who were the second political force in the city hall. One night I went to cover a meeting of the...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 9, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
All the years I spent working as a reporter on courts, I had to deal with judges, prosecutors, Judges… and criminals. There was one named Antonio, who had a brothel and a casino (illegal) in an unsafe quarter of the city and made a scam to steal money from the credit...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 8, 2020 | challenges, Journalism
Last year I published my first book. And it was a success. I had favorable critics, and the people I talked about it said that it is a page-turner. I was delighted. It was written in Spanish, and about a true story. I worked with documentation, diaries memoirs of real...