“No, no, I only won the libel case in Serbia. It’ll be a long time before I win in Montenegro,” Milka Tadić-Mijović tells me with a subtle scoff at the speed at which legal processes unfold in the Balkans.
Tadić-Mijović, who has served in leading editorial positions at local outlets and has written for international ones, is one of Montenegro’s most prominent journalists. She is a top expert on media rights in southeastern Europe, an investigative reporting lecturer and trainer, and was named in Reporters without Borders’ first-ever list of “100 Information Heroes.”
In 2013 she wrote an article that had analyzed a Podgorica conference on media, with particular focus on the fact that liberal Montenegrin outlets Vijesti and Monitor were not welcome and only journalists close to the Đukanović ruling establishment were allowed to be in the room.
