BIRN

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Developing investigative journalism & media training in Southern and Eastern Europe. Flagship outlet: @balkaninsight

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Learn more and read the awarded investigation here:
https://t.co/J4WbkMfaRd

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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.

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📢 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

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The sessions were led by Aleksandar Manasiev of NarativAi and @alexatesic_teso of @BIRNSrbija.
https://t.co/j5eRSXX7F7

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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.

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📢 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

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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

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🎉 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. 👏

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📌 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

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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.

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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

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📢 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

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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

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#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

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@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! 👏

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🎉 Congratulations to @BIRNSrbija for receiving two prestigious Investigative Journalism Awards from @NUNS_1994!

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@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.

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📢 #Job opportunity
We are seeking to recruit a #Correspondent from #Serbia for our English-language website @BalkanInsight: https://t.co/abC9RDTRz8