Threats and harassment against women in journalism are common occurrences throughout the Balkans. As women, they face attacks such as sexual harrassment and threats of rape. 

The mini-documentary “The Burden of Experience” explores how female journalists are threatened for their investigations and their courage and perseverance in the face of these attacks. 

The film follows three journalists: Serbeze Haxhiaj, an investigative journalist from Kosovo, Nataša Kovačev, a TV journalist from Serbia, and Vanja Stokić, an editor and online journalist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. As well as exploring the difficulties they have encountered, the documentary discusses what inspires them to keep doing what they do.

This documentary was produced by Mediacentar Sarajevo in cooperation with the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM).

The regional program ‘RESILIENCE: Civil society action to reaffirm media freedom and counter disinformation and hateful propaganda in Western Balkans and Turkey’ is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by partner organizations SEENPM, Albanian Media Institute, Mediacentar Sarajevo, Kosovo 2.0, Montenegrin Media Institute, Macedonian Institute for Media, Novi Sad School of Journalism, Peace Institute and Bianet.

This article was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Kosovo 2.0 and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

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