Gordana Knezević

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Gordana Knezević was born in July of 1950 in Belgrade. She is the former editor of Oslobođenje and covered the siege of Sarajevo from 1992-1994. She has been based in Toronto, Canada as the online desk editor at Reuters since 1996[1]. She served two terms at the Board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.[2]

Excerpt from her article in The Toronto Star on April 11, 1999:

"I was a Serb besieged by Serbs. And I identified with each person in Sarajevo exposed to Serb shelling. I witnessed the pain of Bosnian Muslims, Croats, Jews and Serbs who were forced from their homes. I could not possibly identify with the people who had started all the shooting, or lend the perpetrators of that action moral support through silence."

[edit] Awards and Recognitions

  • International Editor of the Year for 1993 - World Press Review
  • International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award
  • Rothko Chapel Foundation’s Oscar Romero Human Rights Award
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