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 | Oct 13, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
The first time I entered a Court House, I felt scared and lost. I had in my hand a piece of paper I couldn’t understand I had received the day before at my newsroom, ordering me to appear before a local court to collect a summons.Maybe somebody had denounced me...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 13, 2015 | daily prompt
Tell us about a conversation you couldn’t help but overhear and wish you hadn’t. It was not properly a conversation, but an exchange between a terrorist and a policeman who had just caught him. I was there with my photographer as a young reporter, following a police...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 19, 2015 | daily prompt
Write about anything you’d like, but make sure the post includes this sentence:“I thought we’d never come back from that one.” As a reporter I had to attend to a trial against two dangerous felons in the old court-house of my city. Both had been convicted of murder...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 7, 2013 | bad luck, daily prompt, good luck
Tell us about a time when everything seemed to be going wrong — and then, suddenly, you knew it would be alright. The trial was routine At least I thought so. A question about drug trafficking. Three defendants. I had to report about the trial for my newspaper. I...
