Audience Vote: Three ANEM Members in the Running for the "Dejan Anastasijević 2026" Award
The jury has made a decision regarding this year's nominations for the "Dejan Anastasijević 2026" Award for Investigative Journalism, which is being awarded for the 21st consecutive year by the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia.

This year, four awards are being given – the Award for Best Investigative Story, the Award for Best Investigative Story in Local Media, the Award for Reporting in the Public Interest, and the Audience Award.
- Vuk Cvijić (Radar) – Stopping the Work of the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office (a series of three articles)
- Radmilo Marković and Jelena Kikić (BIRN/TV NOVA) and BIRN – General Staff: The Ruin of the State
- Petrica Đaković (Forbes Serbia) – American Company Seizes Pančevo Fertilizer Plant at the Request of the Executor: Is the Owner in Debt and How Much?
- Stevanović, Ivana Jovanović, and Dejana Cvetković (Bujanovačke) – The Position of Albanians in Serbia (a four-part story)
- Jasmina Prodanović (TAF) – On the Waiting Lists for Orthopedics in Belgrade, Nearly Half of All Patients in Serbia Are Waiting for Hip or Knee Implant Surgery
- Vuk Cvijić (Radar) – Documents Proving Theft through Fake Financial Aid
- Jovana Stojanović (MIRC) – How the Government Replaces State Institutions with Private Companies
- Jelena Zorić, Gordana Andrić, and Ljubica Jocić (BIRN Serbia) – Two Traumas: Rape and Reporting (a two-part story)
- Miloš Zekić and Sara Sekulić (N1) – Statists "with a Task": N1 Journalists at the SNS Rally – From Recruitment to Daily Wage Payment
- Nadica Jakovljev (Portal Zrenjaninski) – Settling Accounts After Two Decades Without Drinking Water – How Much Has It Cost the People of Zrenjanin Their Health?
- Barbara Matejčić (BIRN Serbia) – Killing for a Photograph: What Lies Behind the Only Recorded Death in the Yugoslav War
- Vesna Radojević and Kadidža Šarif (KRIK/OCCRP) – Conversation Between Lučić and Miler: "The President Requested That Aleksandra Subotić Be Replaced Quickly"
- Sofija Parojčić and Branislav Grković (KRIK) – Ćaci(ji): Guardians of the Party
- Vladimíra Dorčová Valtnerová and Bojan Blaževski (Storyteller) – From Southern Banat to Demir Kapija: Local Communities Burdened by Wind Farms and Global Capital
- Saša Dragojlo, Maxence Peigné, and Aleksandar Đorđević (BIRN Serbia) – The Israeli Connection: Belgrade Call Centers and Fake Investments That Have Stolen Hundreds of Millions of Euros from Victims (a two-part story)
The audience can vote until May 11 at midnight, and voting is limited to one vote per IP address.
The applications were reviewed by a jury consisting of:
Branko Čečen – journalist, jury president
Gordana Igrić – journalist
Mirjana Jevtović – editor of the digital forensics unit, Radio Free Europe
Saša Leković – freelance investigative journalist, editor, and trainer
The NUNS Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism is presented annually on World Press Freedom Day, May 3, and this year it will be awarded on May 14 at 4 PM in the "Miljenko Dereta" space.
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