Brankica Stanković

Brankica Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранкица Станковић; born October 1975 in Belgrade) is a prominent Serbian investigative journalist reporting on topics of crime and political corruption in Serbia. She is the main writer of the investigative television news programme Insajder (Serbian for "Insider") broadcast on B92 television since 2004. Her reports led to much controversy, and she routinely receives death threats. For that reason, she has been placed under 24 hours police protection since December 2009.

Early career

Stanković was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then SFR Yugoslavia) in October 1975. After high school graduation, she enrolled a private acting scholl, but quit after two years. She began her career as a journalist for radio and television company RTV Studio B in 1996, where she spent a year. In 1997, she switched to Radio B92, where she has been working ever since. During the 1990s, B92 was a prominent pro-democracy news broadcasting company, opposed to the corrupt regime of then-president Slobodan Milošević. During her early career, she was the editor of B92 radio news programming, and was a screenwriter for such weekly programs as Jutopija and Apatrija. She also worked as a foreign correspondent for Sveriges Radio and German Westdeutscher Rundfunk.