BIRN Hub News and Events

Local partners gathered in Belgrade to discuss challenges and lessons learned during implementation of the GIF regional project.

Journalists from Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia attending BIRN’s Regional Training Camp on Legally Safe and Crisis Reporting on September 18-20 in Bjelasnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, learned how to protect themselves and their newsrooms from different kinds of attacks, including physical attacks, legal actions such as SLAPP lawsuits, as well as how to preserve their digital security.

Media outlets from 10 Balkan and Visegrad countries are invited to apply for grants, training, mentoring, and access to BIRN’s innovative audience-engagement digital tool.

Aleksandra Bogdani is an investigative journalist for BIRN Albania. She has more than 20 years of experience as deputy editor-in-chief of daily newspapers in several newsrooms in Albania.

Empowering Journalism in the Digital Age – Enhancing digital safety and capacities of media and CSOs in the Western Balkans.

Nino Bilajac is an award-winning journalist working at Detektor.ba (BIRN BiH).

Bringing to an end the week-long Summer School in Croatia, participants pitched cross-border stories, some of which will receive funding and editorial support from BIRN.

Perfecting your pitch and how visual storytelling can offer a “new angle on already known events”.

BIRN’s Summer School has inspired two Uzbek journalists to pursue cross-border collaboration with colleagues from the Balkans.

BIRN’s Summer School of Investigative Journalism continued with interview tips and tactics, insight into the benefits of new technologies and advice on staying well while on the job.

During the second day of BIRN’s Summer School of Investigative Reporting, participants had a chance to gain insights into forming and running an investigation and the challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

The latest edition of BIRN’s summer school brings together almost 35 journalists from across Central and Eastern Europe for a week of investigative reporting training with a focus on collaborative, cross-border stories.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network said it will not take down reports about convicted Turkish fraudster Yasam Ayavefe and described an order from a Turkish court to remove the articles as an attack on media freedom.

The Border Graves Investigation, a major cross-border journalism project that included Barbara Matejcic’s story for BIRN about refugee deaths in Croatia, is among ten shortlisted nominees for the annual IJ4EU Impact Award.

Besar Likmeta has extensive experience in journalism, having worked in print, television and electronic media in both the US and Albania since 2003.