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About
Vesna Jaksic is a reporter with award-winning experience at three newspapers.
Born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, she moved to Canada before coming to the United States for a tennis scholarship. After getting her B.A. in communications/journalism from Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., she spent nearly four years at Greeenwich Time, a daily in Greenwich, Conn., covering beats such as social services, housing, health, and education. After that, Vesna moved up to a larger sister paper, The Advocate, in Stamford, Conn., where she mostly wrote about the city’s immigrants.
In 2006, Vesna took a position at The National Law Journal, a leading New York City-based legal weekly newspaper. At the law journal, she covers criminal law, international law and issues arising from globalization of the legal world.