Neuradno.si says a magazine pushed a journalist to death. Nobody knows the cause.

In early September 2026, the portal Neuradno.si published a piece that opens with a question:

"Did Ana Jud take her own life because Martin Odlazek's media house pushed her to the edge?" (translated)

This is not our claim. It is the headline and thesis of an article published by Neuradno.si and signed with the pseudonym "Izidor". The author's real name is unknown, which is worth knowing before an accusation that threatens two named people with prison. Our crawler cannot display the original page (the page for automated reading stays blank), so below we quote from the full text that the editor passed to our newsroom, and which matches the variant that Moja Dolenjska, a regional outlet, summarised the same day under an almost identical headline.

What the portal builds its accusation on. According to the portal, Aleš Černigoj, director of the magazine Reporter, terminated Jud's contract for services by email in October 2025, on the instruction of editor-in-chief Silvester Šurla, with no notice period and no severance pay. For a full month of work in September, she was reportedly paid €850 as a sole trader (s.p.):

"Because the contributions, which are a cost of the sole-trader business through which she had to work, come to approximately €720, she was left with €130 as pay." (translated)

The method: a reversed burden of proof. The portal also claims that Jud worked part of her career at Reporter "off the books", paid outside the contract and without contributions. The only evidence is one private message to an unnamed "confidential person", which the portal partly covered up to protect the source. The conclusion Neuradno draws from it says more about the method than about Jud:

"If this evidence does not exist, it is more than obvious that her claim that she was paid off the books holds." (translated)

This is not proof, it is a reversal of the burden of proof: the absence of a document is read as confirmation of the claim, not as missing evidence. The portal uses the same method for the debt. The estimate of "over €50,000" is backed by no payslip or court ruling. It is the portal's own calculation, "derived from years of work without a contract".

The column said to be the trigger. According to sources the portal spoke to, the direct reason for the termination was a column about Robert Golob and Tina Gaber, which Šurla forbade to be published. In it, Jud wrote that Golob's reforms had hurt coypus and that the prime minister is emotionally confused. She described the minister by comparing her clothing to that of Islamist suicide attackers. The column was published in full by the portal Na dlani at the end of October 2025, the month of her termination. Its content explains why the editor refused to publish it. It does not explain whether the termination actually followed from this reason or from another.

What the piece does not tell you. The official cause of Ana Jud's death has never been made public. None of the verified sources reporting on her death states it.

Her former husband Kristjan Lapuh, who announced the news of her death on 8 April 2026, later published an extensive personal piece. It was not a denial of suicide, as some media summarised it, but something more complicated:

"Yes, Ana thought about suicide. Not just once. She tried it a few times too, but looking back, I believe those were cries for help. [...] But whether it was suicide or not, nobody knows today." (translated)

The same piece goes on with a warning, because of which his words should not be read as confirmation of any thesis:

"People speculate, some hint, others claim. The fact is that we do not know. [...] To her daughters, you are telling them that she gave them up." (translated)

Reporter itself published an in memoriam signed by journalist Dejan Steinbuch, which explains the end of the collaboration with Jud differently from how Neuradno paints it:

"Ana stopped giving anything of herself. She could not. [...] Years ago, as editor of Portal Plus, I too ended my collaboration with her, because in the state she was in, she could no longer write. Something similar later happened at Reporter." (translated)

This is not exculpatory evidence. Reporter has an obvious interest in presenting the end of its collaboration with her as the result of long-standing mental distress and not as a retaliatory measure over a column. But the claim is documented, signed and published, whereas Neuradno's version rests on anonymous sources and an internal message that nobody outside the portal has verified.

Prison, promised in the conditional. The piece cites four articles of the Criminal Code: violation of workers' fundamental rights, workplace bullying, cruel treatment leading to suicide, and violation of social insurance rights, with penalties of up to five years in prison. Each is introduced with an "if": if an investigation proved, if it turned out.

"If an investigation showed that cruel or inhumane treatment of a subordinate caused a suicide, up to five years in prison is threatened." (translated)

The condition is in the paragraph's first sentence and the prison term in its last, in the same breath, which quickly leaves the reader with the sentence alone. No prosecuting authority has so far confirmed that the investigation the condition refers to is under way at all.

Questions without answers. The portal sent six questions to Odlazek, Šurla and Černigoj:

"Please answer our journalistic questions by Thursday, 3 September 2026, by 8 pm." (translated)

No reply had been published by the time of publication, which Neuradno reads as indirect confirmation of all its claims. Silence means that none of those asked contested the claims, not that they admitted them. We will send the questions again, from our own address.

Among the comparisons the portal uses for moral contrast is a member of parliament who allegedly owes employees about €43,000. The name is not given in the part of the text quoted, so the comparison cannot be verified, and we cite it only as part of the piece's rhetoric, not as a verified fact. The same goes for a single Facebook post that supposedly proves Jud worked while on sick leave with a broken leg. The portal does not link to it, so we cannot check it.

So what do we actually know? That Jud stopped writing for Reporter in October 2025. That she received €850 for her September work. That the cause of her death in April 2026 has not been published. And that the only person who has spoken publicly about the circumstances asked us to stop speculating, for the sake of her two underage daughters, not for the sake of Reporter.

The claim of a causal link between the termination of the contract and her death is Neuradno's, not ours. We are reporting it because it has been publicly published and because it involves a labour dispute that is verifiable in itself: payslips, contracts and IJZ replies either exist or do not exist, regardless of what anyone claims about the cause of death. What in the piece cannot be verified without extra work, namely who the "confidential person" is, who the MP in the comparison is, and what exactly the unpublished Facebook screenshot shows, we leave marked as such: unknown.