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01 February 2012 BIRN HUB is beginning a one-month long training period for the online publication of its new regional project, Balkan Transitional Justice (BTJ).
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26 January 2012 This Thursday, Life in Kosovo broadcasts a debate on the performance of the boards of public enterprises.
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26 January 2012 A training for journalists participating in the region-wide BICCED project kicked off in Belgrade on Thursday.
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19 January 2012 Tonight, Life in Kosovo will discuss last weekend’s protests and those that will come later in a brand new studio.
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25 January 2012 Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) together Robert Bosch Stiftung and ERSTE Foundation, sixth time in a row, opened a call for applications within the program “Balkan Fellowship for journalistic excellence. The topic of the new call is communities and journalists from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are invited to apply till March 5, 2012.
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18 January 2012 BIRN Hub opened a five-day long training course on journalistic reporting about transitional justice issues in the scope of the newly launched programme Balkan Transitional Justice.
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05 January 2012 This Thursday, Life in Kosovo goes to South Africa to investigate whether energy supply problems have been solved since a new power plant was built with World Bank loans – in a similar way to the planned New Kosova power plant.
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12 January 2012 Tonight Life in Kosovo broadcasts an investigative report by Alban Selimi showing how the medical drugs, bought from Serbia, have been registered with fake documents even though the authorities knew about it.
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15 December 2011
A fund-raising evening organised and broadcast by BIRN as part of its ‘Life in Kosovo’ show has raised funds for the medical treatment of children at home and abroad.
19 December 2011 BIRN Hub has launched a two-year multimedia project called “Regional Transitional Justice”, which is being financed by the Swiss Foreign Ministry and supported also by the European Commission.
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13 October 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast an exclusive interview with Pierre Mirel, one of the leading authors of the European Commission’s Progress Report for the Western Balkan countries, as well as a debate on problems in the health sector.
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06 October 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast an interview with US diplomat Christopher Hill and a debate on the politicisation of school teachers.
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29 September 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast a debate on the issue of repatriation.
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22 September 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast a debate with representatives from government, civil society, the International Crisis Group and the Serb community in the north to discuss the security situation in northern Kosovo, in light of tensions over border crossings.
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22 September 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast a debate on the security situation in the restive north of the country.
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04 May 2010 On April 27 and 28 the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in collaboration with USAID's Judicial Sector Development Programme, continued a training course for journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina reporting on war-crimes trials conducted before cantonal and district courts.
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Training is BIRN’s core activity, aimed to strengthen professional capacities of journalists and media outlets across the region.
BIRN training activities are designed to build journalists professional skill to produce relevant reporting that has an impact on societies, opinion-shapers and decision-makers in the Balkans.
Justice Report is a specialist reporting agency focusing on war crimes trials taking place before local courts; development of the local legal system; and efforts to come to terms with the past.
The Minority Media Training and
Reporting Project aims to improve standards of journalism in areas of Serbia with substantial
minority populations and to improve understanding of minority issues among the
mainstream population, thereby challenging the current mood of suspicion and
misunderstanding.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
