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BIRN Macedonia Holds Digital Rights Training for Journalists
BIRN Macedonia organized a training on Digital Rights for Journalists between June 8-10 in Mavrovo, North Macedonia. The training was designed to shed light on digital rights and equip journalists with skills and tools to cover stories stemming from this increasingly important topic.

Digital Rights Training for Macedonian Journalists: Applications Open
What are digital rights, who is violating them and how, and why is it important to monitor and report on them? How can journalists recognise problems in this area, prepare stories and get mentoring and financial support for their development and publication?

BIRN Macedonia Publishes ‘Media Uncovered’ Database
New database will give the public essential information about the media on which they rely for current events and developments in the country and worldwide.

EU Awards Presented for Best Investigative Journalism in North Macedonia
Winning stories tackled tragic fate of Balkan lynx, pandemic profiteers and over-employment in a government ministry.

BIRN Wins Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Award
To mark World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, campaign group Reporters Without Borders Austria awarded the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network with its annual Press Freedom Award – A Signal for Europe.

BIRN Macedonia Journalist Wins Investigative Story Award
BIRN Macedonia’s story ‘Alive and Well: The Lucrative Business Club around REK Bitola’ by journalist Vlado Apostolov has been awarded best investigative story of the year 2019 by the Macedonian Media Institute, MIM.

‘Navigator’ Offers Investigative Journalists Invaluable Tool
New guide supplies Balkan journalists with range of ways to use Open Source Intelligence in their research.

BIRN Macedonia Journalist Awarded for Cultural Heritage Report
BIRN journalist Goce Trpkovski was given an award by the Macedonian National Council of the International Council of Museums for raising awareness about the poor condition of cultural heritage in the country.

BIRN Panelists Discuss Strategies to Rebuild Trust in Media
Some 20 international experts discussed approaches to rebuilding trust in journalism and alternative models of financing media on day two of BIRN’s digital media conference in Macedonia.

Experts Discuss Balkan Media Sustainability at BIRN Conference
The first day of a BIRN Macedonia conference on media sustainability heard a number of speakers exchanging ideas and best practices.

BIRN to Host Conference on Media Sustainability
BIRN Macedonia conference aims to explore both the opportunities and challenges for the digital media in a hyper-competitive age, marked by the exponential rise of social media.

BIRN Journalists Trained in Mobile Video Journalism
BIRN journalists from Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and BIRN Hub attended a training course on mobile video production from August 19 to 21 in Skopje.

BIRN Regional Meeting Held in Bucharest
Directors, board members, partners and donors of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, met in the Romanian capital Bucharest on June 2-3 for the network’s latest regional meeting of its governing bodies.

BIRN Cited in International Reports
Monitoring reports produced by BIRN and articles published in its regional publication Balkan Insight continue to be quoted in international reports about media, human rights and politics in the region.

Between Pressures and Praises – BIRN Network Annual Report 2017
In 2017, BIRN Network operated in an environment of declining media freedoms and unregulated media markets, where authorities and pro-governmental media outlets pressured members of the Network and its journalists; nevertheless, BIRN received national and international prizes as well as different kinds of informal praise.