Category: Trainers and panelists

In March 2011, Ahmeti was elected President of the Board of Association of Professional Journalists of Kosovo, APJK, which is the largest media and journalist organization in Kosovo.  Recently, APJK led a journalist and media protest against Kosovo’s new penal codes that were approved by Kosovo’s parliament.  According to the controversial articles 37 and 38, journalists can be held criminally liable and obliged to reveal their sources.

Following threats received after he wrote articles on organised crime in 2008 he was placed under 24 hr police protection. Although his life was in danger, Hrvoje Appelt was fired by his employer. Today, he is an independent investigative journalist.

http://www.appeltreport.com/

His bestselling book, Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened, is the story of his 2500-mile journey around Scotland on other people’s boats. It was published by Little Brown and serialised on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week programme in March 2006.

Eight Men and a Duck, his critically-acclaimed first book, recounts his voyage to Easter Island by reed boat and was published by Abacus in 2003. He is currently working on a new book called Relax or Die: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go, due for publication in 2011.

Born in 1970, Nick grew up near London but moved to Scotland more than 15 years ago. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and young son. His obsessions include Six Feet Under, the meaning of existence and things that float.

http://www.nickthorpe.co.uk

2001-2004: Advisor for the Balkan Südosteuropäischer Dialog, magazine, Vienna and Kulturzentrum, Vienna

2000- 2001: Director of Balkan Südosteuropäischer Dialog, magazine, and Kulturzentrum, Vienna

2000: Vujovic founded Balkan Point – Independent SEE Research and News Service  on www.balkanpoint.org

1998-1999: Product manager in Henkel CEE in the Vienna headquarter and responsible for marketing in the new founded company Henkel Yugoslavia (as Director)

1994-1997: Querleser Wien Correspondent for South East Europe

1991- 2000: Correspondent of the Austrian daily Die Presse in Belgrade The Belgrade Federal Minister of Information decided to recall his accreditation, and Oliver Vujovic reported between 1994 – 1997 from Skopje ( Macedonia) and Szeged (Hungary), also using the pseudonym David Fatschel

1991 – Independent Consultant, Event Manager and  Business Researcher. Also independent advisor for Public Relations and Business Developments. Cooperation with companies in Austria, Germany,  Switzerland and in South East Europe

1989 – 1991: Radio B92, Belgrade

1988 – 1989: Radio Index, Belgrade

1988 – 2000: Freelancer in South East Europe for media in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries and UK. He published also articles in several print media in South East Europe.

Vujovic had in this period as journalist / correspondent over 400 interviews with leading persons in South East Europe, and he published in total over 3500 different articles in print media.

He graduated economics (public relations). Today he works on his PhD.

Editor, co-editor,  author or co-author in  books, publications, research articles and magazines. He is  editor of the SEEMO Media Handbook (annual publication) and publisher of the De Scripto magazine. Some of publications were he was the editor are: Guide for Investigative Reporters, Investigative Reporting in SEE etc. 

Contact: public-department@balkanpoint.org

Link to www.seemo.org

Experience in working with media, journalists, political parties and governments, international organizations and NGOs. A total of 23 years in different organizations working in sales, media, communications and advertising.

Present duties:

Director: Managing all segments and activities of the PR/ advertising agency BORAM, which also supports an informal network of radio stations. Also, supervising both TV documentary and  commercial production in BORAM as well as organization of different conferences and events.  Developing media strategy for educational campaigns.

Managing different campaigns of public interest:  European Commission, EUFOR Branding Campaign, US Defense Ministry Anti-terrorism campaign, EUPM, OSCE, OHR, UNDP, UNICEF, IOM, BBI Bank, UNHCR, The US Embassy, Dutch Embassy, TEPD, BBC, H. La Roche, German Institute for Cultural Relations- Ifa,.

Duties also include: strategic planning, business planning, purchase of media time, market analysis, tactical planning, projections of future developments, as well as public relations strategy, communication plans …Coordinator: Stability Pact Media Working Group for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

Team Leader for EU Awareness Programme in BiH. Was responsible for project management; provided the overall strategic communications advices to the DEI and ECD, contributed to the development of a project strategy paper and articulated a corresponding annual work plan; focused on the media aspects of the work to be performed under the contract, identified the best key messages and their relevance to the targeted audiences, ensured the selection of adequate communication channels to reach the targeted audiences.

Worked on a monitoring component and measured the impact of all activities undertaken; was responsible for all the media relations aspects of the project.

Together with other experts supervised all the TV production aspects of the EU Awareness campaign, and ensured the material produced would effectively be broadcast by the partner TV channels, in relevant programmes and formats in order to reach important audiences; acted as an Executive Producer of TV debates and quizzes, was in charge of the relations with print media to ensure sustained coverage of the EU integration process, through story alerts and good background material as well as press inserts; organised the media training sessions and defined their content, acted as presenter at the PR trainings, organized brunches for journalists, was responsible for the organization of 9 May events on behalf of the Project, as well as for the organization of round tables throughout the country.

President, International Advertising/Media Association for BiH; Representative of BiH in South East Europe Media Organization; former Chairwoman, Stability Pact Media Working Group for BiH; member, Board of Directors ABC; member, Board of Directors Balkan Youth Foundation

Worked as a lecturer on Freedom of Access to Information Law, Defamation Law and self regulation of print media

http://www.boram.ba/

She published “Dizionario di mafia e Antimafia” (with Livio pepino, Ega 2008).

www.narcomafie.it

Ana has been working as a journalist since 1997. She was a staff writer for the Skopje based Forum magazine until 2000. During the 1999 Kosovo conflict she also worked with television stations Arte, Spiegel TV and RAI Uno.

In 2000 she won a scholarship for a professional year development at Indiana University’s School of Journalism and spent a year in the United States. While overseas she worked as a correspondent for Deutsche Welle’s Macedonian service.

From 2001 until May 2003 she covered the Macedonian conflict and its aftermath for Reuters. In 2002 she was Associate producer of IWPR`s documentary “Ohrid and beyond”. She was IWPR Country Director for Macedonia from 2003 until 2005.

In 2005 she established the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network BIRN, in Macedonia, a local non-governmental organisation which is part of the wider regional network. In 2006 she produced BIRN`s documentary on Kosovo “Does Anyone Have a Plan?”. She has chaired and attended numerous public debates and is often invited to comment current affairs in Macedonia by local and international media as the Economist, Radio Free Europe, BBC, CNN.

http://birn.eu.com/en/1/205/622/

He is the only person to have won awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., the world’s leading organization in the field, for both his investigative reports and his research on journalism.

His other journalism awards include the H.L. Mencken Free Press Award (given for work on government abuses), the Sigma Delta Chi Award for research on journalism, and the National Headliners and Clarion Awards for a series of articles showing how an obscure US law created a population of handicapped children, who were subsequently cut from welfare rolls. He has also won the EFMD Award for case writing.

All in all, he has authored or co-authored some 200 investigative reports for publications including The New York Times Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Le Figaro, and others.

His articles on media and communication have appeared in Corporate Reputation Review, Harvard Business Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, the Journal of Business Ethics, and elsewhere.

His doctoral thesis in communications, published by the Presses Universitaires de France as Le Journalisme d’investigation en France et aux Etats-Unis, was the first cross-cultural study of French and American investigative reporting methods; his manual for investigative reporters, Story-Based Inquiry, was published by UNESCO in 2009.

Among his other works are a pioneering study of work-life issues, The Passions of Men: Work and Love in the Age of Stress (Putnam, 1988); the first unauthorized biography of France’s most popular politician of the Left, Jack Lang (Les Jours les plus Lang, Odile Jacob, 1990); the case-cracking true story of a murder that implicated France’s power elite, Le Destin de Suzanne: La Véritable affaire Canson (Fayard, 1995); an analysis of the French extreme right and its militant base, Un Américain au Front: Enquête au sein du Front national (Stock, 1998); and a documentary film on France’s lobbies and their political connections (Chronique d’une campagne arrosée, Arte, 1999).

He was a founding member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network in 2003, and speaks regularly at international journalism conferences, to multinational corporations, and to news organizations about finding and using information.

As an investigative media trainer, he works with Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), France Télévisions, the London Centre for Investigative Journalism, and many other organizations.

When not working, he performs and records on the electric guitar.

http://markleehunter.free.fr/