Data & investigative journalist and lecturer
Through my work at the Center for Investigative Reporting in Serbia as director, editor, and journalist, I worked on a number of data/investigative stories and projects including government accountability, political corruption, and campaign financing. I covered the tobacco and drug smuggling industry, a background of the assassination of the first democratically elected prime minister of … Continue reading CINS projects
Data reporting & analysis, investigative reporting 2012 – 2013 Core member of the Offshore Leaks investigation, the biggest collaborative team of journalists up 2015, assembled to sift through 260 gigabytes of unstructured data – 2.5 millions of secret records from 10 tax havens– (documents, emails, spreadsheets), an award-winning project by ICIJ. The data needed to … Continue reading Offshore Leaks
Python, Django (2014 – 2016) Veritza is a prototype of a tool for automated data collection of public records. The tool experimented with the idea to automate the discovery of story leads from public records by scraping, ingesting and aggregating data, and analyzing it for patterns and anomalies, with the aim to help reporters more find story … Continue reading Veritza
Python, Django (2012 – ) In 2012, I worked to develop a web application that would empower journalists to access public records through an automated process, dubbed the FOIA Machine. Thanks to Kickstarter supporters and a Knight Foundation Prototype Fund support, FOIA Machine beta version was deployed in 2013, and the project became an official … Continue reading FOIA Machine