Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) invites media from six Western Balkans countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) to become host media in the One-Month Regional Exchange Programme during 2023 and/or 2024. This programme is a unique opportunity that will allow both parties to share their expertise in investigative news production and foster knowledge exchange.

BIRN Kosovo has opened a new call for applications for its first two-day training course on investigative reporting and fact-checking, as part of the EU-funded project ‘Strengthening Quality News and Independent Journalism in the Western Balkans and Turkey II’.

The call for the first Training Camp for Young Journalists from Türkiye and Western Balkans is now open!

Journalists from the Western Balkans and Türkiye submitted more than 260 applications to the Call for EU Investigative Journalism Award 2023.

As part of the project “Strengthening Quality News and Independent Journalism in the Western Balkans and Turkey II” BIRN Kosovo held a training camp in Durres, Albania, on legally safe and crisis reporting for journalists from the region.

BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting returns this August in Thessaloniki, with a stunning number of award-winning journalists and editors as trainers.

The EU Civil Society Forum for Western Balkans and Türkiye 2023 and a launch meeting for new grantees under the Regional Grant Beneficiaries Civil Society Facility 2022 was held from May 31 to June 2 in Podgorica, Montenegro.

BIRN Kosovo has opened a new call for applications for its first three-day training course on legally safe reporting and crisis reporting, as part of the EU-funded project “Strengthening Quality News and Independent Journalism in the Western Balkans and Turkey II”.

Journalists from Western Balkans and Türkiye are invited to submit their investigative stories

The EU Investigative Journalism Awards in the Western Balkans and Türkiye aim to celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements of investigative journalists as well as improve the visibility of quality journalism in these countries.