BIRN Hub News and Events

This year’s competition for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence is closed as of today.

The newly created Balkan Transitional Justice programme is launching its website as part of Balkan Insight today, March 1.

Annual ward will add new element to the BICCED project, which opened last Thursday.

Andrea Doder, a former BBC international affairs journalist, has joined the Balkan Transitional Justice (BTJ) team today as the English-language Editor-in-Chief.

A training for journalists participating in the region-wide BICCED project kicked off in Belgrade on Thursday.

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) together Robert Bosch Stiftung and ERSTE Foundation, sixth time in a row, opened a call for applications within the program “Balkan Fellowship for journalistic excellence. The topic of the new call is communities and journalists from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are invited to apply till March 5, 2012.

BIRN Hub opened a five-day long training course on journalistic reporting about transitional justice issues in the scope of the newly launched programme Balkan Transitional Justice.

The BIRN Regional Network in Belgrade on November 18 and 19 finalised the process of forming a new BIRN Hub Board. The previous members, directors of local member organisations, have moved to the Steering Committee of the BIRN Hub.

BIRN Hub has launched a two-year multimedia project called “Regional Transitional Justice”, which is being financed by the Swiss Foreign Ministry and supported also by the European Commission.

BIRN is announcing that Digging Deeper: a Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans is now available to buy online. This unique handbook showcases interesting investigative stories and individual journalistic successes, as well as providing an overview of investigative techniques.

BIRN has decided to turn a new page in its development by getting involved in activities related to the competition of the best regional web projects, www.WebFest.me, starting from Wednesday, when a conference featuring world-renowned speakers will take place in Budva, Montenegro.

The last day of this year’s BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting saw participants present their investigative story ideas. All investigative pieces, submitted by previously determined participant groups, were given the opportunity to gain funding from the SCOOP Network of investigative journalists, based in Denmark.

Microsoft has made a donation of software to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, to support the network’s regional Journalism and Editing project.

This year’s second annual BIRN Summer School took place in the Croatian resort of Opatija from 21st to 27th August 2011. As was the case last year, BIRN again gathered leading investigative journalists and trainers at the Summer School, as well as experienced journalists and trainees from the Balkans and elsewhere.

Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence alumni joined artists, journalists, researchers and activists taking part in ERSTE Foundation’s annual get together at the Tyrolean village of Alpbach.