Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Developing investigative journalism & media training in Southern and Eastern Europe. Flagship outlet: @balkaninsight
Congratulations to #BIRN contributors @curic_anna and Maradia Tsaava for winning the Border Stories Prize! 👏
Their investigation, ‘Follow the Money: Why the EU, Not China, Matters Most to Serbia and Georgia’, published by @BalkanInsight, was awarded by @FondFeltrinelli.
📢 We have an open call!
Grants worth €1.500 are available for professional freelance or staff journalists and teams from across the Visegrad and Balkan region, with ideas for investigative, analytical, or feature stories.
📅 Apply by July 1: https://t.co/K3f74eFAU6
Over the past weekend, #BIRN Albania organised a training session, bringing together #journalists from national media outlets to strengthen their reporting skills on #AI, surveillance technologies, and their growing impact on society.
📢 Journalists from Montenegro and Kosovo, apply for the anti-corruption reporting open call! Selected journalists will receive grants of up to $1,500, alongside mentoring and technical support from BIRN editors and experts.
Read the application details: https://t.co/bA2rADPt9L
They revealed that at least eight Moldovan citizens between July and September 2024, were trained in Russian camps in Bosnia on how to use weapons and drones with explosive devices.
https://t.co/GpLjDqpAWv
🎉 Congratulations to #BIRN BiH/@detektor_ba journalists @Irvin_P, @EnesHodzic6 and @nino_141, who won second place at the “Superscrieri” journalism awards in Romania in the “TV and Video Journalism” category, together with @cu_sens. 👏
📌 Meet the People Behind #BIRN
Since @Dor_Kastrati, an award-winning BIRN Kosovo editor/journalist and project coordinator, joined the organisation as an intern 10 years ago, she has witnessed all the changes and growth BIRN has been going through: https://t.co/9ofV4RqBWk
From May 11–15, we were in Vienna with a new generation of fellows for a two-day hands-on workshop. The program also included networking with alumni fellows and a celebration of the best stories from the 2024 fellowship generation.
Take a look at some of the highlights.
We're hiring!
If you have at least 5 years of relevant experience and want to join our team as a full-time Serbia correspondent for @BalkanInsight, send us your application by 12 June!
More information: https://t.co/abC9RDUpoG
📢 Open call
We invite independent journalists in #Kosovo and #Montenegro to apply for anti-corruption reporting grants: https://t.co/bA2rADPt9L
📅 Application deadline: 7 June 2026
Through the Media Organisations for Stronger Transnational Journalism (MOST) project, #BIRN has awarded grants to 20 journalists to produce investigative stories addressing key issues across Europe: https://t.co/kHZTSjS4lB
#BIRN Albania has published a series of legislative briefings analysing key elements of the EU’s 2024 Anti-Money Laundering package:
https://t.co/XtOanFGQ6z
@bmatejcic@tvnova_s@radomir_martin@BIRNSrbija@bujanovacke 🏆 The Audience Award was presented to Milos Zekic and Sara Sekulic (@n1srbija) for their investigation "N1 Journalists at the SNS meeting – from recruitment to payment of daily wages".
Congratulations to all our colleagues! 👏
@bmatejcic@tvnova_s@radomir_martin@BIRNSrbija 🏆 In the investigative stories category in local media, a team from @bujanovacke (N. Stevanovic, Ivana Jovanovic and Dejana Cvetkovic) received an award for their series on the position of Albanians in Serbia.