Brankica Stanković

Brankica Stanković (; born October 1975) is a prominent Serbian investigative journalist reporting on topics of crime and political corruption in Serbia. She is the main writer of the investigative television news programme Insajder (Serbian for "Insider") produced by the B92 television between 2004 and 2015, and by Stanković's own news production company since 2016.

Her reports led to much controversy, and she routinely receives death threats. For that reason, she has been placed under 24 hours police protection since December 2009.

Early career Stanković was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then SFR Yugoslavia) in October 1975. After high school graduation, she enrolled a private acting school, but quit after two years. During her early career, she was the editor of B92 radio news programming, and was a screenwriter for such weekly programs as Jutopija and Apatrija. The first season of Insajder was about the political aspects of the assassination of Zoran Đinđić. While working on this topic, the Insajder crew found out that after Milorad Ulemek, Đinđić's assassin, was arrested, he was not taken to the police custody, but to the office of then Minister of Internal Affairs Dragan Jočić. Later episodes investigated such topics as: the Customs Mafia case, high-profile cigarette smuggling, and secret transfers of state money to Cyprus. The most infamous incident occurred on 16 December 2009 during the UEFA Europa League football game between FK Partizan and FC Shakhtar Donetsk when a group of hooligans supporting FK Partizan stabbed with knives an inflatable doll representing Stanković. During the incident, hooligans chanted "You're like a serpent, you'll follow Ćuruvija, Brankica the whore", Miloš Radosavljević Kimi, the leader of the "Alkatraz" hooligan group was separately sentenced to 16 months in prison in 2010.

In 2013, B92 published Stanković's autobiographic book titled "Insajder: My Story". . In 2014, she was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award given by International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).

Insajder.net In 2016, Stanković quit job at B92 in order to launch her own news production company and investigative internet portal Insajder.net. Her company continued producing the "Insajder" programme for B92 television (renamed "O2 television" in 2017). Insajder.net also produces several other TV programmes ("Insajder debata", "Insajder bez ograničenja") broadcast in syndication by N1 television and TV Prva.