Vesna Rajković Nenadić is a Montenegrin journalist, editor and media trainer with more than 25 years of experience. She works as Program Manager at the Montenegro Media Institute, a role she has held since June 2020. Since September 2022 she has also been the author of the TV show Crosswords on TV E. The show has been broadcast on several Montenegrin television stations.
She started her career in 1996 as a contributor and later a journalist at Radio Cetinje. From 2001 to 2002 she trained as a journalist in the editorial office of Deutsche Welle in Cologne, Germany. She then spent almost ten years as a reporter for the Beta news agency, first in its Podgorica office from 2002 to 2010 and then in Belgrade from 2011 to 2012. From 2012 to 2020 she was Editor-in-Chief of Atlas TV. From 2016 to 2020 she was also Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Portal Analitika. She has contributed to WDR, DW, Monitor, Vijesti and Business.hr.
For many years she has trained people in human rights, women’s rights, gender equality, hate speech and media literacy. She has led seminars organised by the OSCE, IREX, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and many non-governmental organisations, and she is a certified IREX media literacy trainer. She has written several studies and analyses on the media and controversial speech, especially hate speech. She has also co-authored media monitoring studies on hate speech and ethnic tensions.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Mediteran in Podgorica in 2017. In 2018 she earned a specialist degree in Criminal Law from the University of Montenegro.