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Alexenia Dimitrova is special correspondent for the 2nd largest daily in Bulgaria, 24 Hours. She has more than 25 years experience in journalism and has published more than 4,000 articles in 40 media outlets in Bulgaria, USA, Russia, Croatia and Britain.
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Ana Petruseva is Macedonia Country Director and Balkan Insight Managing Editor.
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Besar Likmeta is the editor for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in Albania.Since 2003 he has worked as a journalist for various print publications, electronic media and television.
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Catalin Prisacariu has been a journalist since 2000. He started as a reporter for a local weekly, then moved, still as a reporter, to a daily paper based in Iasi (the "capital" city of the Moldova region in eastern Romania), called "Ziarul de Iasi". Between 2004 and 2005, he wrote investigative stories for a weekly paper also based in Iasi. The paper, "Ieseanul", is part of a national network owned by the media group Media Pro.
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Don Ray is a multi-media producer, writer, author, journalist and lecturer. He began his television journalism career as a researcher with the investigative news team Unit 4 at KNBC-TV, now NBC4, in Burbank, California in 1978.
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Dragana Nikolic is the Head of the Media Department (2007 - present) at the OSCE Mission to Serbia where she serves as senior adviser to the Head of Mission on media issues, communicates OSCE media policy to Serbian Government, media and NGOs, as well as briefing the international community on the media environment.
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