News and Events

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) is inviting journalists and media outlets to apply for its Travel & Reporting Grants Programme.

Two exhibitions on the 1995 genocide first presented in 2025 will reopen together this July at UN headquarters.

Media organisations urged the Serbian authorities to lift the entry restrictions imposed on BIRN Montenegro’s Vuk Maras and TV journalist Petar Komnenic in retaliation for Montenegro barring a Serbian pro-government editor from entering the country.

Marking the annual genocide commemoration, the Srebrenica Memorial Centre opened an exhibition entitled ‘Facing Srebrenica: Views from the Besieged City’, featuring photographs that show how people lived inside the besieged enclave during wartime.

BIRN Montenegro’s executive director Vuk Maras said he was denied entry to Serbia as a reciprocal measure after Montenegro barred the owner of a Serbian pro-government media outlet.

BIRN Albania has published a new report, ‘Municipal Councils in Silence: Media Coverage and the Engagement of Municipal Councils in Albania’, which examines how Albanian media cover municipal councils and how council members themselves engage with the media.

Study focuses on gaps and omissions that too often leave occupational safety concerns in Kosovo unaddressed.

On July 1, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in partnership with ProPeace Bosnia and Herzegovina, officially presented the “Virtual Memories” application in Sarajevo.

New report says legal guarantees on access to information across region are strong on paper, but journalists still face administrative silence, delays, weak enforcement and inconsistent institutional practice.

Irvin Pekmez joined BIRN BiH (Detektor.ba) in 2020. Almost six years later, he says, BIRN is ’bigger – and expectations of the editorial team and of me have naturally evolved’.

On June 30, 2026, BIRN Kosovo launched its fifth and concluding monitoring report on the National Strategy for the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism (2023–2028) titled Institutional Challenges and Progress in Prevention of Terrorism in Kosovo.

Report looks at factors preventing women, non-majority communities and others from exercising their property rights equally to others.

Closing event attended by Kosovo’s Acting President – who said end of project was not end of search for truth about missing from Kosovo war.

Training focused on navigating the challenges that AI and emerging technologies present to media and civil society.

Fast stories fade. The important ones need digging.
Applications are now open for the BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2026. This is a space for journalists who want to move beyond daily reporting and focus on real investigative work.