Thousands of kilometres from home, exploited and unprotected, victims of human trafficking have gone through countless horrors. Without careful planning, journalists wanting to tell their stories can ...
Sasa Lekovic
Sasa Lekovic is the President of NGO Investigative Journalism Center, based in Croatia. From 2015 to 2018 he was a president of the Croatian Journalists Association. He is freelance reporter, editor, trainer and media consultant from 2003 and Nacional weekly Assistant Editor-in-chief as well from 2024.
Lekovic has been a journalist for the past 44 years, working in different position in local and national print media in Croatia. He is one of the founders of a Zagreb-based national daily Jutarnji list. He also has expertise in radio, TV and web media in Croatia as well in South East Europe region. As a reporter and editor as well as a licensed investigative reporting trainer and lecturer he has worked with a few hundred of journalists and journalism students, mostly in South East Europe but also in other European countries as well as and in Armenia, Bangladesh, Israel/ Palestine, Nigeria.
Sasa Lekovic is one of the founders of Global Investigative Journalism Network.
Events IJF 2024
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...
The war in ex Yugoslavia started twenty-five years ago in 1991. Firstly it was Slovenia to move towards independence and then the Croatian War of Independence contributed to the continued dismantlin...
