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 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 on current affairs in Macedonia by local and international media as The Economist, Radio Free Europe, BBC, CNN.
Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2026 Sessions
Engaged Citizens Reporting (ECR)
Audiences are increasingly dispersed and less actively engaged in supporting journalism’s core purpose of revealing and reporting facts. Engaged citizen reporting offers a way forward by revealing under-reported: citizens can become active participants in investigations, surfacing facts, pointing journalists toward where abuse or misconduct is happening, and providing evidence to support reporting. Through engaged citizen reporting, BIRN has produced some of its most important investigations on issues related to online abuse, environmental damage, gender-based discrimination and many more.
In collaboration with Karla Juničić, Engaged Citizens Reporting Programme Coordinator, this session will show how to launch an audience-engaged project and what to consider along the way — from crowdsourcing evidence, preparing effective callouts, to fact-checking and analysis and shaping storytelling. It will also address how to keep citizens engaged throughout the process, and why involving them ultimately builds greater trust and connection with your journalism.
Freedom of Information: Using FOI to Strengthen Investigative Reporting
This session will explore how Freedom of Information (FOI) can be used as a powerful tool for investigative journalism. It will focus on practical ways journalists can use FOI requests to uncover information, generate new leads, verify findings and strengthen evidence-based investigations. The session will also look at common challenges journalists face when requesting information and strategies for overcoming them.