Milka Tadić Mijović is a journalist, media executive and international civic activist during the turbulent transition era in Southeast Europe. She is one of the co-founders of the weekly Monitor, the first Montenegrin private and independent weekly magazine (1990).
Tadić Mijović was the first journalist dismissed from a job in Montenegro for articles critical of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s nationalistic policies. Her articles defending peace and ethnic minorities and combating corruption have received awards and have been translated and quoted by the New York Times, the Economist, and other publications. She was threatened in her country for speaking against corruption and other government wrongdoings. For this, Tadic Mijovic has been identified in the first-ever list of “100 Information Heroes” by Reporters without Borders.
Tadić Mijović served on the Open Society Foundations board in Montenegro, on the Council of Europe Steering Committee on the Mass Media, and as a member of the Joint Commission on Media Policy of the Duke University & City of Vienna. She holds a Master’s degree in political science and journalism from University of Montenegro, and a Bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Belgrade.
Tadic MIjovic is president of Centre for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro. She is now focused on topics related to high level corruption, rule of law, freedom of media and destruction of the nature in her native Montenegro and the Balkans.
During the ‘90s, she was actively engaged in the antiwar movement.
