Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Barbara Matejčić is an award-wining freelance journalist, non-fiction writer, editor, researcher and audio producer focused on social affairs and human rights in the Balkan region. She was awarded European Press Prize (2004, and she was the European Press Prize finalist in 2021) and Investigative Journalism for Europe award (2024). She lectures at the Journalism Studies at University of VERN’ in Zagreb. She writes for Croatian and international print and online media and produces multimedia projects. Her work was featured at Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, TV Arte, Austrian weekly Profil, Italian weekly L’Espresso, German daily Neues Deutschland, Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer, Balkan Insight, among others.

Barbara cooperated with distinctive international organizations, institutions and think tanks such as the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Roma Education Fund, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, European Stability Initiative, European Trade Union Institute, UNHCR, UNICEF.