Milica Šarić

Milica began working as an investigative journalist and fact-checker in 2012. In October 2018, she became editor-in-chief of the independent Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS). As editor, she has contributed to the production of 90 investigative stories and 2 databases.

She won the EU award for best young investigative journalist in Serbia in 2017 and, with the CINS team, won the prestigious 2017 European Press Prize for investigative journalism for a series of articles on the failed fight against corruption in Serbia, as well as the WJP Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism, and Dusan Bogavac award for ethics and courage. She has investigated energy and environmental issues, botched privatizations, private security, the judiciary, and political party financing.

Under Milica's editorship, CINS was among finalists for the Global Editor Network's data journalism award, and the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards for courageous, high-impact and determined journalism that exposes censorship and threats to free expression. As fact-checker she worked with the OCCRP, and as an external associate she contributes to Poynter's IFCN.

Project title: Audience engagement strategy for the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia

Sponsor: Thomson Reuters Foundation