BIRN Hub News and Events

Internet Freedom Meet 2025 (IFM 2025) will take place in Pristina, Kosovo, from November 24 to 26. It will bring together experts in the field of digital rights and internet freedoms to exchange, learn and discuss ever-expanding digital rights and freedoms issues.

September 28 is World News Day, a global campaign dedicated to highlighting the importance of fact-based journalism.

Dragana Zarkovic Obradovic is BIRN Serbia’s Director and a Regional Manager of the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme.

From September 8-10, BIRN participated in the Global Gathering 2025 in Portugal, one of the most significant global events bringing together key actors working on digital rights and media freedom.

At the ABOAGORA symposium in Turku, Finland, on September 12, Nejra Mulaomerovic, Senior Project Manager of the Balkan Transitional Justice programme, presented the first multimedia database mapping mass graves from the Yugoslav wars.

This year marks BIRN’s 20th anniversary. It all started when five women from countries recovering from brutal wars defied the odds to establish what would become a major independent media organisation – the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.

Blake Morrison, Investigative Projects Editor at Reuters News, opened the fifth day of the 15th BIRN Summer School, where he gave attendees advice on how to pitch their stories.

The fourth day of the 15th BIRN Summer School started with an excellent lecture by Milica Stojanovic, a journalist and fact-checker at Balkan Insight.

The third day of the BIRN Summer School in Pristina continued with the Advanced Data Journalism course, taught by Jonathan Soma, professor of data journalism at Columbia University’s Journalism School.

During the second day of BIRN’s Summer School of Investigative Reporting, participants learned how to use open source data to gather information, how to use AI in everyday work and how to increase their own digital security.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), kicked off the 15th edition of its Summer School of Investigative Reporting on Monday in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, led by some of the world’s top journalists.

Journalists covering EU member countries and EU aspiring countries are invited to apply for grants to produce investigations shedding light on critical social, political and economic issues.

Three Montenegrin media outlets and three civil society organizations were trained on how to use the CER (Crowdsourcing Evidence, Engaging Citizens, Reporting Facts) tool in corruption-related investigations.

This year marks BIRN’s 20th anniversary. From exposing corruption to promoting human rights, BIRN’s investigative journalists collaborate across borders to find out the facts and tell people’s stories.

Four-day online training drew journalists from across the Western Balkans and the Visegrad countries to sessions led by expert regional trainers.