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23 05 2007 On May 21 – 22, the
BIRN Serbia team will travel to East Serbia to
interview potential candidates for the BIRN correspondent network.
The network in
Serbia includes young and
middle-aged journalists from a range of ethnic backgrounds, who work for local
media outlets and national media in Belgrade.
As part of its
efforts to build a truly nationwide network of journalists, BIRN Serbia is to
launch a training course in East Serbia on June
9. Participants will be taught international reporting standards, news analyses
and feature writing.
This training
session will be followed by a special issue of Balkan Insight devoted to the
socio-political situation in East Serbia, an
underdeveloped area, blighted by a bad economy, unsuccessful privatization and
ecological problems.
This session,
sponsored by the British Embassy in Belgrade as part of a three- year journalism
training project, will provide a group of five journalists with invaluable
opportunities to adopt BIRN's professional standards and become permanent
members of its netw
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.
