Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

This year’s call for Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence is now closed! Thank you to all who applied. We received more than 150 applications! We kindly ask for your patience during the evaluation process. All applicants will be informed about the results by mid-April.

On behalf of journalists from across the region, as well as her fellow colleagues and alumni of the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, we extend our deepest condolences to Mila’s family, her husband Ismar, their children, and to her colleagues.

Croatian journalist Mila Moralic has passed away at the age of 45. She will be remembered as an outstanding colleague whose dedication to strengthening her profession will be deeply missed. birn.eu.com/news-and-event…

We congratulate Bojan Blazevski, an alumnus of BIRN's @RDFellowship, on winning second prize 🥈 for his story about the phosphogypsum landfill in North Macedonia, published by @Prizma_BIRN and @BalkanInsight. 👏

On Friday last week, our Instagram profile (balkan_insight) was suspended by Meta without a clear explanation. We’ve just regained access. We’ll resume our usual posts on Monday, thank you for your patience.

Campaigners for the women say the official commission that adjudicates reparations claims needs to change tack. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2026/02/12/kos…

📢 Applications are now open for the 2026 @RDFellowship! Journalists from Central or South Eastern Europe, apply for a €3,000 bursary to support your reporting, and an introductory seminar in Vienna from 11 to 15 May, among other benefits: birn.eu.com/news-and-event…

Balkan Insight's Instagram account was suspended over the weekend for unknown reasons. We’re working to get it back again. Stay tuned. We appreciate your patience.

We’re approaching the deadline for the #Dataharvest2026 conference call! ❗ Professional journalists, particularly freelance journalists and those in small or independent media outlets, join us in Mechelen, Belgium, from 28 to 31 May: birn.eu.com/news-and-event… #EIJC26

❗ Professional journalists, #BIRN and Arena for Journalism in Europe await you in Mechelen🇧🇪, from 28 to 31 May for the Dataharvest conference! Apply now for your chance to take part: birn.eu.com/news-and-event… #EIJC26 #dataharvest2026 @erstefoundation

🧑‍💻 Together with Arena for Journalism in Europe, and with the support of @erstefoundation, we invite #journalists to join Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference! Apply to attend it in Mechelen 🇧🇪 from May 28 to 31 ➡️ shorturl.at/1dPfD #EIJC26

Viktor Orban wants to use the EU’s "green transition” to make Hungary great again, but his embrace of a dirty industry has sparked grassroots resistance. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/12/18/the…

Listen to the full episode:  balkaninsight.com/2025/11/06/the… Read the full story published on @rept_democracy and @balkaninsight balkaninsight.com/2025/10/06/the…

Journalist Zuza Nazaruk joins Long Exposure to discuss the neglected phenomenon of intra-EU deportations. Her investigation with @wmsneep and @andrada_lautaru reveals how homeless EU citizens are sent “back home” from the streets of Rotterdam to Poland and Romania.

🧵 The EU's "freedom of movement” gives its citizens the right to travel, work, and live freely within the bloc – or so we think. In fact, for some of the bloc's poorer citizens, this freedom can be abruptly curtailed.

Pristina and Belgrade distrust the diocese in Kosovo. One sees it as an agent of Serbian nationalism; for the other, it is not nationalistic enough. The faithful in the Serb minority, however, prefer monks and priests to their politicians. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/11/12/bet…

Poland is the poster-child of Nato military spending but its patchy civil defences are pushing anxious citizens to build private bomb shelters and join online survivalist communities. Check out our latest long read: balkaninsight.com/2025/10/31/und…

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Balkan Insight readers, we want to hear your opinions. 📣 Fill out our short, anonymous survey 👇 balkaninsight.com/2025/10/27/sha… and say what you like and dislike about our website. 👍👎 Let us know which kind of stories matter most to you – and what changes you’d like to see. 🗣💙

From deadly train crashes to police assaults and wildfires, the Greek state bears its share of blame for destroyed lives and livelihoods – but good luck with getting it to own up and pay out. Check out the latest @RDFellowship's long read. @News247gr balkaninsight.com/2025/10/11/sta…