Baton Haxhiu
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Baton Haxhiu is one of Kosovo
's best known journalists. In 1990s he started working as a junior journalist with Koha magazine. He later became editor-in-chief of Koha Ditore daily, established by publisher Veton Surroi
. In this capacity, he won the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 1999.
Later he left Koha Ditore and became head of Kosovo's journalist union. In 2007 he joined the newly established daily Express, where he worked as a manager. In 2008 he was punished by the International Court for War Crimes for Contempt of Court, after a controversial article that may have threatened witnesses in a ongoing trial of a suspected war criminal.
Haxhiu works in Prishtina now, as a operational manager in Klan TV station in Kosovo, and is frequently engaged in marketing campaigns for various political parties.
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
's best known journalists. In 1990s he started working as a junior journalist with Koha magazine. He later became editor-in-chief of Koha Ditore daily, established by publisher Veton Surroi
Veton Surroi
Veton Surroi is a popular Kosovo Albanian publicist and politician. Surroi is the founder and former leader of the ORA reformist political party, and was a member of Kosovo assembly from 2004 to 2008...
. In this capacity, he won the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 1999.
Later he left Koha Ditore and became head of Kosovo's journalist union. In 2007 he joined the newly established daily Express, where he worked as a manager. In 2008 he was punished by the International Court for War Crimes for Contempt of Court, after a controversial article that may have threatened witnesses in a ongoing trial of a suspected war criminal.
Haxhiu works in Prishtina now, as a operational manager in Klan TV station in Kosovo, and is frequently engaged in marketing campaigns for various political parties.