# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zeljko-kopanja
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:59:28.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zeljko-kopanja"
name: "Željko Kopanja"
slug: "zeljko-kopanja"
description: "Željko Kopanja was a Bosnian newspaper editor and director of the newspaper Nezavisne Novine. The Christian Science Monitor described him as an equal critic of all parties without regard to ethnicity and \"probably the most feared journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina.\" On August 8, 2016 Željko Kopanja died from a cardiac arrest."
tagline: "Bosnian journalist (1954–2016)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954-10-21"
deathDate: "2016-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.87
  momentum:             10.58823529411765
  historical:           7.670014666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BE%A4%E5%88%A9%E7%A7%91%C2%B7%E7%A7%91%E5%B8%95%E5%B0%BC%E4%BA%9E"
    title: "澤利科·科帕尼亞"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%86%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%86%D8%A7"
    title: "زيلچكو كوپانچا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Kopanja"
    title: "Željko Kopanja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Kopanja"
    title: "Željko Kopanja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Kopanja"
    title: "Željko Kopanja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Kopanja"
    title: "Željko Kopanja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Kopanja"
    title: "Željko Kopanja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D1%99%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%9A%D0%B0"
    title: "Жељко Копања"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Kopanja"
    title: "Željko Kopanja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3594427"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump