Svetlana Lukić (born December 14, 1958) is a

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n journalist. She was born in

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and received a degree in journalism from the Belgrade College of Political Sciences. Lukić hosted the radio show ''Niko kao ja'' on

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from 1987 to 1993; in 1990, she received an award from the Serbian Journalists Association for her work on this show. She was dismissed from Radio Belgrade in 1993 and joined Radio Brod, a project sponsored by the

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, reporting on the war in the former

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. In 1994, she joined B92 radio, as the editor for the shows ''Fantom slobode'' (Phantom of freedom) and ''Pescanik'' (the Hourglass). In 2017, Lukić has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the

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and

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.Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.

Awards and honours

The show ''Pescanik'' was given the Press Freedom Award – Signal for Europe by

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Austria. Lukić has also received the Jug Grizelj award, the Dušan Bogavac award, the Konstantin Obradović award and the Belgrade City Journalism Award.

References

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