Former editors

Academic year Editor-in-Chief From Graduated
2008-2009

Nora Georgieva

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and Business Administration.
Student representative to the Board of Trustees for academic year 2008-2009.
Member of the More-Honors Academy 2007-2009.

Gabrovo, Bulgaria 2009
2007-2008

Nadezhda Hristova

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and Business Administration

Sevlievo, Bulgaria 2009 (expected)
2006-2007

Hristiana Pencheva

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and European Studies

Sevlievo, Bulgaria 2007
2005-2006

Yaldaz Sadakova

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and Political Science

"I think I was considered a bully editor because I used to do things like dragging reporters out of the bar in the middle of the night so they could meet a deadline."

Sevlievo, Bulgaria 2007
2004-2005

Velimira Ivanova

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and Business Administration

Sevlievo, Bulgaria 2006
Spring and Fall 2005

Georgi Ivanov

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication

Bulgaria 2006
Fall 2004

Katerina Upevche

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and European Studies

Ohrid, Macedonia 2005
2003-2004

Sylvia Zareva

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and Political Science

"I think they used to call me "the dictator," but that had my blessing. I was probably the worst diplomat in the editorial lineage of FlashNews. I didn't, and still don't, believe in political correctness."

Lovech, Bulgaria 2004
2001-2003

Adriana Kirilova

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication

"I was opinionated and very bossy. I called the AP style book 'the Bible.' Once I was threatened by an angry reader that I'll have my head broken."

Lom, Bulgaria 2003
 

Jovana Miocinovic

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and Southeast European Studies

"Had it not been for Flash, my whole experience at AUBG would have been a lot more bland. If I ever in my professional career reach the same level of motivation, passion, and inspiration that I invested in Flash, I will consider myself a very lucky person."

Indjija, Serbia 2003
2000-2001

Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and American Studies

"I was one of the first FlashNews editors in general (co-founder with Ilya and Jelica), and I'm probably the only Flash editor working on issues related to nuclear weapons."

Almaty, Kazakhstan 2001
 

Jelica Vesic

Major in Journalism and Mass Communication and English Literature

Serbia 2001
1999-2000

Ilya Vedrashko

Major in Political Science and Business Administration

Founder of FlashNews

"Doing Flash was a lot of fun, and I kind of kept doing Flash-Like things in most of my post-AUBG life. That's another story, though."

Chisinau, Moldova 2000

How FlashNews came to be

Ilya Vedrashko: "In 1999, we used to have these two big newspapers, Vox and Aspecter. They would come out every three-four weeks, by which time whatever news they had would've gone stale. I had just been made a manager of Vox, and we decided we'd have the actual paper print deeper analytical or investigative and less time-sensitive stuff and send news updates more regularly, by e-mail. The name FlashNews comes from a section of Vox called -- surprise! -- Flash News, which was a compilation of brief updates on a bunch of things on one page. We took that section out of the newspaper and started e-mailing it around instead. Then for a number of reasons FlashNews got spun off into an independent organization, both newspapers eventually died off, and that's were we are today."