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16 May 2012 The Balkan Initiative for Cultural Cooperation Exchange and Development, BICCED, funded by the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans, is announcing the launch of the first Culture Watch Award.
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08 May 2012 The overall picture of the Serbia 2012 elections was one of disappointed citizens, tired of a long election campaign that offered only modest political change, BIRN Serbia monitoring has revealed. Initial results of the monitoring research were presented last night during the Election Night events organized by the Belgrade Media Center.
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08 May 2012 The 2012 fellowship has got underway with a seminar in Vienna, where the reporters worked with a team of editors to fine-tune their proposals.
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30 April 2012 Balkan Investigative Reporting Regional Network (BIRN) is launching a new monthly regional radio programme about transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Serbia, titled Putevi pravde in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Rrugët e Drejtësisë in Albanian and По патот на правдата in Macedonian [Paths of Justice in English].
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25 April 2012 BIRN Serbia team has commenced a two-week monitoring exercise of the May 6 election campaign, with the aim of establishing an efficient and innovative tool for monitoring any future government’s performance and accountability.
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24 April 2012
BIRN journalists, Bojana Barlovac and Aleksandar Djordjevic, and two BIRN Summer School participants, Bojana Jovanovic and Stevan Dojcinovic, are finalists for the National Investigative Journalism Award 2012 by the Independent Association of Journalists in Serbia.
24 April 2012 The Independent association of Journalists in Serbia has announced the nominees for awards for investigative journalism, and BIRN trainees were nominated in all categories: for electronic, print and online media.
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24 April 2012 In the course of this year’s Fellowship programme, starting with the introductory meeting on April 25 in Vienna, the ten selected journalists will examine the topic of Communities from different angles.
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05 April 2012 Life in Kosovo this Thursday will discuss the latest arrests conducted by the Serbian state.
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04 April 2012 Public interests should trump any other concerns, participants at debate on Tuesday in Belgrade agreed
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24 November 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast a debate on the privatisation of the electricity distribution network of the Kosovo Energy Corporation, KEK.
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17 November 2011 Life in Kosovo discussed the 2012 budget and the state of the economy.
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10 November 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast a debate about domestic products and measures of reciprocity in trade with Serbia.
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27 October 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcasts an exclusive programme from northern Kosovo.
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20 October 2011 Life in Kosovo will broadcast a debate on the findings of the EU progress report for 2011.
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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.
