News and Events

Between October 2025 and January 2026, BIRN will support 15 enthusiastic journalists in conducting investigations and producing journalistic content focused on fact-checking and disinformation.

BIRN’s documentary “Painting in the Darkness”, which tells the story of an artist imprisoned as a political dissident and whose works were confiscated by Albania’s repressive communist regime, was screened on Thursday at the “NNW” International Film Festival in Gdynia, Poland.

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.

On September 23, 2025, BIRN Kosovo organized a one-day workshop in Prishtina for local civil society organizations (CSOs), aimed at strengthening their capacity to develop monitoring and research projects in the field of terrorism and violent extremism.

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.

BIRN BiH director Dzenis Dzidic receives prestigious award for long-standing contribution to investigative journalism and media freedom.  

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Albania organized a three-day training in the ciy of Durrës from September 19 to 21.

We are offering grants for three talented journalists to delve deep into environment-related topics, uncover hidden truths, and shed light on critical issues affecting Albanian citizens.

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.

On September 11, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Albania held a roundtable in Tirana on environmental issues, bringing together journalists and experts from civil society organizations.

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.

On August 29, 2025, BIRN Kosovo, in cooperation with the North Mitrovica-based NGO ACDC, launched a campaign to document the trauma of families of missing persons as part of the EU-funded project “Uncovering the Truth: Combating Mono-Ethnic Journalism and Advocacy for Missing Persons in Kosovo,” in an event at the Reporting House Museum in Prishtina.

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.