Dragan Gmizić is a professional journalist from Serbia who has worked in the field since 1998. He primarily covers social, political, historical, economic and environmental issues within the former Yugoslav region.
In 2011, he founded the Novi Sad-based television production company Greenfield, where he currently works as a producer and author.
Gmizić served as assistant director to Želimir Žilnik on the film The Old School of Capitalism (Stara škola kapitalizma). His book, 'Land, Oil and People: Testimonials about the Economic Growth of Vojvodina 1974–1988' (Zemlja, nafta i ljudi: svedočenja o ekonomskom razvoju Vojvodine 1974/88), was published in 2014.
He has collaborated with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on a project documenting Second World War testimonies from Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina since 2006.
He has been nominated twice for the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia's (NUNS) annual award: in 2015 for an investigation into corruption in agriculture and in 2017 for a documentary about quail poaching in Serbia. The latter also earned him the EU Award for Investigative Journalism in the same year. In 2013, he received the Golden Nika Award at the International Reportage and Media Festival.
Throughout his career, he has contributed to a variety of national and international media outlets, including Radio 021, B92, Voice of America, WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), NOS (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting), RTV Vojvodina and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN).
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