Inforadar

Inforadar is a project of the Udruženje za medijski aktivizam – UMA (in English: Association for Media Activism), founded in March 2018 to promote democratic values, critical thinking, and freedom of speech. The organisation supports independent and critical investigative journalism and encourages analytical journalism through reporting socio-political investigative stories. Its founders strive to increase citizen interest in political processes and preserve freedom of speech.

With the help of its in-house and freelance journalist network, Inforadar publishes investigations on political and economic power centres, corruption, and human rights. A large part of its social media audience gets Inforadar's information via Facebook (more than 30,000 followers).

Through one of its projects, the site produced a series of analytical reports that explored the background of political candidates for the 2018 general elections, the promises of their political parties, and investigative articles on clientelism and corruption. Within the same project, Inforadar.ba organised workshops on analytical journalism and public interest for journalism students and young journalists who, on that occasion, had the opportunity to collaborate with the portal.

In 2020, Inforadar became famous as one of the few local media outlets that investigated one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country to date, which revealed the involvement of high-ranking political leaders in the irregular procurement (worth several million euros) for the import of dozens of ventilators of questionable quality to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the fight against Covid-19.

Grants are its only source of income.