
Stevan Dojčinović: I thought publishing the truth was enough, but you also have to do something about the lies
Award winning investigative journalist talks exposing crime networks, Paradise Papers and dealing with intimidation.
|25.04.2019
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KRIK journalists are under constant surveillance by Serbia's Security Intelligence Agency.
You get pissed off because you are swamped with lies from the minute you wake up in the morning.
The five most important TV channels with national frequencies are controlled by the government and you can't find real information there, nothing.
The results were actually funny, because they show that the more a media breaks the ethics rules, the more money it receives from the government.
Nowadays, it’s not important just to publish true stories, you also need to debunk lies.
Vučić is kind of a mastermind of propaganda.
There was never really war for organized crime — they work really nicely together.
Some of the names mentioned in the report are almost anonymous here in Kosovo, maybe because reporting on organized crimes is lacking in Kosovo’s media.
This is torturing us, it completely destroys your schedule and wastes money, but it is worth it because now people can better see who the government minister really is.
The fear is not the problem in Serbia, but the constant pressure.
The only people who can make these links are a group of journalists who can do cross-border stories, because that's how crime works.

Arian Lumezi
Arian Lumezi is an editor at K2.0. He holds a master’s degree in International Journalism from Cardiff University, pursued through a Chevening scholarship.
This story was originally written in English.