Denis Džidić has been the executive director and editor of BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina (Detektor portal) since 2019. He started his journalistic career in the daily newspaper Oslobođenje in 2006.
He joined BIRN BiH in 2008. He devoted most of his career to transitional justice and reporting on war crimes in the 1992-1995 war in BiH. He also reported from The Hague. Džidić worked at the “Institute for War and Peace Reporting” in Sarajevo and The Hague. He is the winner of several awards, among others, from the “Biti Novinar” Association) for continuous reporting and contribution to uncovering the truth about the genocide in Srebrenica.
Under his leadership, Detektor (BIRN BiH) won the 2020 European Press Prize for reporting on war crimes trials, transitional justice issues and the problems faced by victims of the 1990s conflict. He is currently a member of the Preparatory Committee of the European Press Prize. He graduated from the Journalism Department of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo, and received his master’s degree in international law.