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Julia Ziemer

December 17th, 2014

Silverstone Scholarship awarded to Milan Dinic

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Julia Ziemer

December 17th, 2014

Silverstone Scholarship awarded to Milan Dinic

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

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Polis are delighted to announce that the recipient of the Silverstone Scholarship for 2015 is LSE MSc student Milan Dinic.

Milan Dinic is a Journalist from Serbia, with a BA in Political Science and an MA in Terrorism, Organized Crime and Security Studies, both from University of Belgrade. He has worked for media in Serbia and the region, reporting on politics, economy and social issues and is currently studying the MSc course in Media and Communications at LSE.

The scholarship is £5,000 and is awarded in honour of the late Professor Roger Silverstone, Head of the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.  The successful Fellow has to show a strong aptitude for high quality research and meet the criteria for ‘excellence in Global Journalism’.

On receiving the award, Milan said: “I am honoured and grateful to have been selected for the Polis Silverstone scholarship. It is a privilege to be able to carry an award that bears the name of such a distinguished media and communications pioneer as the late professor Roger Silverstone. This is a great stimulus for my future studies and for my professional work as a journalist.”

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Julia Ziemer

Julia Ziemer is Institute Manager at the Marshall Institute. She has previously worked at Polis, LSE's journalism think-tank, the charity English PEN and the Literature Department of the British Council.

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