Dragan Bursać

Dragan Bursać is a Bosnian columnist and professor of philosophy. He has been professionally engaged in journalism since 1999. He started his career as a journalist at Radio Banja Luka. From 2010 to the end of 2016 he worked at the BUKA portal, one of the most prominent independent media portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina,  as a journalist / columnist. In 2014 he started writing as a columnist for Al Jazeera Balkans. He is currently a permanent columnist for both Al Jazeera Balkans and BUKA Portal. He won the journalistic award “Srdjan Aleksic” for the development of socially responsible journalism and UNICEF’s Prize for freedom of journalistic expression.

 Dragan Bursać won the 2018 European Press Prize Opinion Award with ‘The third shooting of the boy Petar from Konjic‘

Maria Ruxandra Burcescu

Maria Ruxandra Burcescu is a contributor for Republica.ro where she publishes opinion pieces, as well as social and political stories. As a result of winning one of the Superscrieri press fellowships in 2017, she has documented the phenomena of revenge porn in Romania along with her colleague, Nicoleta Rădăcină and visual artist Alexandra Crisbaşan. She has also been awarded the III prize at the Superscrieri Gala for an opinion piece. Besides her work as a journalist, she is actively involved in an NGO that deals with educational and environmental issues and has organized a youth project concerning deforestation in the summer of 2017. 

Maria Ruxandra Burcescu was selected for the 2018 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Attention! These images no longer have an emotional impact on you: the victim is stupid, hypocritical, vicious and slutty’.