While refreshing myself recently in Novi Sad, I started a conversation with an affable hostel owner who told me of his two sons on a high-school exchange in America. For them, it had been a bit disappointing, he explained.
About Balkan Insight
During the
past two years the BIRN Hub has engaged in extensive training
activities, building teams of investigative journalists throughout
the Balkans and training them in different aspects of their trade.
The Hub produced Balkan Insight,
an online publication distributed through a free newsletter and
available on the www.birn.eu.com website. During this period BIRN has
published 109 issues of the Balkan Insight
newsletter with over 600 analytical reports, in-depth analyses and
investigations and over 500 news items from throughout the region
covering major challenges of
the political, social and economic transition.
Within a short period, Balkan Insight built up over 15,000 subscribers to its English edition, while some 5,000 readers from the region subscribed to editions in the Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Macedonian languages.
Articles produced through training and reporting have reached a truly regional and international audience through the Network’s acclaimed online publication. Through e-mail subscription, policymakers, journalists, activists, researchers and other stakeholders have been receiving Balkan Insight’s English and local language editions every week.
BIRN`s articles have achieved a cross-regional and global impact through more than 2,500 republications in over 100 local and regional media outlets and over 100 international, mostly web-based outlets. BIRN reports are regularly cited on national news programmes throughout the region, occasionally prompting special features. Investigations and in-depth analyses are often used as a basis for such programmes, as well as being serialised in print publications, thus making a considerable impact on the policy sphere.
BIRN editors and contributors have received several awards and special mentions for their work during 2006 and 2007. Among them, an investigative report, "Ex-Policemen Run Kosovo Passport Scam", by Krenar Gashi and the BIRN investigative team, was named best story in print/online journalism in Kosovo for 2006, by the Association of Professional Journalists of Kosova, APJK.
During 2007 BIRN introduced new content into its editorial output with a daily service of brief, up-to-date news reports, while it worked steadily on diversifying its longer-established publication, transforming it into what is now www.BalkanInsight.com. The new website of the BIRN Network, launched in October 2007, offers fresh material and ideas for our readers and customers: more political and business news and analysis; comment by high-profile decision makers and opinion formers; investigations and interviews; as well as lifestyle and feature articles from across the Balkans.
The www.BalkanInsight.com website contains current information from nine countries in the Balkans, and will keep its readers updated on the latest developments in the region, through regular analytical and investigative reports. It covers reforms and the transition process, business and investment trends, while a daily news service is available through the “In brief” section.
Within a short period, Balkan Insight built up over 15,000 subscribers to its English edition, while some 5,000 readers from the region subscribed to editions in the Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Macedonian languages.
Articles produced through training and reporting have reached a truly regional and international audience through the Network’s acclaimed online publication. Through e-mail subscription, policymakers, journalists, activists, researchers and other stakeholders have been receiving Balkan Insight’s English and local language editions every week.
BIRN`s articles have achieved a cross-regional and global impact through more than 2,500 republications in over 100 local and regional media outlets and over 100 international, mostly web-based outlets. BIRN reports are regularly cited on national news programmes throughout the region, occasionally prompting special features. Investigations and in-depth analyses are often used as a basis for such programmes, as well as being serialised in print publications, thus making a considerable impact on the policy sphere.
BIRN editors and contributors have received several awards and special mentions for their work during 2006 and 2007. Among them, an investigative report, "Ex-Policemen Run Kosovo Passport Scam", by Krenar Gashi and the BIRN investigative team, was named best story in print/online journalism in Kosovo for 2006, by the Association of Professional Journalists of Kosova, APJK.
During 2007 BIRN introduced new content into its editorial output with a daily service of brief, up-to-date news reports, while it worked steadily on diversifying its longer-established publication, transforming it into what is now www.BalkanInsight.com. The new website of the BIRN Network, launched in October 2007, offers fresh material and ideas for our readers and customers: more political and business news and analysis; comment by high-profile decision makers and opinion formers; investigations and interviews; as well as lifestyle and feature articles from across the Balkans.
The www.BalkanInsight.com website contains current information from nine countries in the Balkans, and will keep its readers updated on the latest developments in the region, through regular analytical and investigative reports. It covers reforms and the transition process, business and investment trends, while a daily news service is available through the “In brief” section.
