Journalists in South East and Central Europe are often filling an institutional gap and doing investigations in cases of corruption instead of state authorities, including investigation of corruptio...
Aleksandra Bogdani
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
Aleksandra Bogdani is an investigative journalist and editor for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Albania. She has more than a decade of experience working as a reporter, editor and deputy editor-in-chief.
In November 2015 she received the CEI/SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits for her professional achievements as an intrepid reporter covering complex stories of human trafficking, organised crime and child abuse, corruption and national security. Bogdani impressed the jury with the courage she had shown in producing an in-depth series of six investigations into the network of recruiters who send Albanian muslims to fight in Syria for the Islam State of Iraq and Levant, ISIS, and the al-Nusra front.