News

Serbian Ruling Party Exhibits ‘Media Lies’
Serbia’s ruling Progressive Party (SNS) organized an unusual exhibition of negative press articles to back its claim that there is no official censorship in Serbia.

Pulitzer Winner Hosts Sessions at BIRN Summer School
BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting will be held from 21 to 27 August in Konjic Bosnia and Herzegovina. In its seventh edition, the School will be organised in the form of Master Class.

BIRN Macedonia Trains Albanian-Language Journalists
In a day-long course in Skopje, BIRN’s Jeta Xharra shared her insights into ethics, undercover reporting, how to conduct interviews and manage sources and much more.

BIRN Regional Board Meeting Held in Skopje
Directors, board members, partners and donors of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, met in the Macedonian capital Skopje on June 18-20 for the network’s latest regional Board meeting.

BIRN Wins Seven Prestigous Awards in May
BIRN’s investigative journalists and teams in Macedonia, Serbia, Albania and Kosovo have been given seven different awards in the course of one month for the quality of their reporting.

EU Prize Highlights Cross-Border Collaboration
An award-winning investigation into a $75m road-building contract underscores the importance of cross-border collaboration.

BIRN Reports Win EU Investigative Journalism Awards
BIRN Serbia journalist Aleksandar Djordjevic win first prize in the EU awards for investigative journalism in Serbia, while the third prize went to BIRN’s Ivan Angelovski, Jelena Cosic, Petrit Collaku and Kreshnik Gashi.

BIRN’s Kosovo War Film Wins US Festival Award
BIRN’s film The Unidentified, investigating the commanders responsible for brutal attacks during the Kosovo war, was given the best short documentary award at the South East European Film Festival in LA.

Tenth Edition of BFJE Launched in Vienna
The tenth Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence got underway in Vienna with a multimedia workshop, reporting/writing tips and tailored editorial guidance for 10 new fellows from across the Balkan region.

BIRN Praised for Good Practice in Journalism
Media experts and journalists from south-east Europe who met to discuss how to preserve journalistic integrity said that only a few media in the region, including BIRN, were serving as role models.

BIRN Bolsters Social Media Expertise
Communication officers from across the BIRN Network gathered in Serbia’s capital on February 23-24 for an intensive training session focused on social media.

BFJE Alumna Barbara Matejcic’s New Publication
New work by Fellow from 2009 looks at the challenging experiences of people rejected or ignored by wider society.

Fellowship Journalist Commended for Trafficking Investigation
Lindita Cela, a 2015 alumni of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, has received a commendation from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in Albania, UN Women, for the “creation of a professional model of investigative journalism for the reporting on trafficking of women and girls.”

BIRN Documentary ‘The Unidentified’ Showing in US
BIRN’s documentary about Kosovo war massacres and their subsequent attempted cover-up, ‘The Unidentified’, will be screened in New York and Williamsburg, Virginia.

The 10th Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence Competition Still Open for Applications
Become a BFJE fellow this year! To download and fill in the application to participate, please go to http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/en/page/home.