Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

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Keen to encourage professional, in-depth, cross-border reporting in Southeast Europe, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and Erste Foundation set up the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme. In 2020, we have expanded the programme to include countries in Central Europe: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The newly branded Fellowship for Journalistic Exc

ellence now covers 14 countries, and each year provides 10 journalists with funding and professional support to conduct their own research project. Fellows also benefit from membership in an alumni network of the best mid-career professionals across the CEE region.

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predat...
16/12/2024

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predator: the timber industry.

New Lines Magazine
Check out our latest long read:

“Hybrid warfare” brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem.

In our latest long-read, find out how “hybrid warfare” brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem.New Lines...
15/12/2024

In our latest long-read, find out how “hybrid warfare” brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem.

New Lines Magazine 👇

“Hybrid warfare” brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem.

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predat...
14/12/2024

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predator: the timber industry.

New Lines Magazine

Check out our latest long read:

“Hybrid warfare” brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem.

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predat...
12/12/2024

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predator: the timber industry.
New Lines Magazine
Check out our latest long read:

“Hybrid warfare” brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem.

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predat...
11/12/2024

Bialowieza had other problems before it became a frontline in Europe’s migration crisis. The forest has a natural predator: the timber industry. Almost all the forest area in Belarus, and some of it in Poland, falls within national parks.

Check out our latest long read:

“Hybrid warfare” brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem.

We are proud of our fellow from last year, Tadeusz Michrowski, who got the First Honorable Mention at the Society of Env...
26/11/2024

We are proud of our fellow from last year, Tadeusz Michrowski, who got the First Honorable Mention at the Society of Environmental Journalists awards for his story on the Baltic fisheries.

Read the story:

Meet the usual and unusual suspects in the death of small-scale fisheries – from Brussels, industrial trawlers and environmental pollution to conservationists, the grey seal and the parasitic roundworm.

“Catch-22 on the Baltic: The twilight of Poland’s coastal fishermen”, by our 2022 fellow Tadeusz Michrowski, is a finali...
01/10/2024

“Catch-22 on the Baltic: The twilight of Poland’s coastal fishermen”, by our 2022 fellow Tadeusz Michrowski, is a finalist at the 2024 Climate Journalism Award.

You can read the story here 👇

Meet the usual and unusual suspects in the death of small-scale fisheries – from Brussels, industrial trawlers and environmental pollution to conservationists, the grey seal and the parasitic roundworm.

Cluj's IT sector generates 80% of Romania's IT exports. This boom triggered a secondary explosion in Cluj's real estate ...
04/07/2024

Cluj's IT sector generates 80% of Romania's IT exports. This boom triggered a secondary explosion in Cluj's real estate market. Property values have more than doubled in the last decade, making it the most expensive city in Romania for real estate.

On the other hand, affordable housing has become scarce. Over the past decade, thousands of applications for public housing have been rejected.

Read the story that won the third prize in the Fellowship
earlier this year. 👇

Seattle, Barcelona, Bengaluru – and Cluj-Napoca. Welcome to the Romanian student city trampled under the march of tech-driven gentrification.

07/06/2024

We would like to congratulate Barbara Matejcic and Andrei Popoviciu, two of our colleagues from the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network's Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence alumni network, who have won the European Press Prize 2024 awards.

Barbara received the Special Prize for the story ‘Nomen Nescio: Dying En Route to Europe, Buried Without a Name,’ which was part of the Border Graves investigation series published by Balkan Insight and other media.

Read the story: https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-militarize-africa-senegal-borders-anti-migration-surveillance

Another Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence alumnus, Andrei Popoviciu, won the Migration Journalism Award for ‘How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa.’

Read the story: https://rb.gy/6sdjtz

We also want to congratulate our colleagues Apostolos Fotiadis, Ludek Stavinoha, and Giacomo Zandonini, whose story investigating problems with the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online was a runner-up for the European Press Prize’s Investigative Reporting Award.

Read the story: https://t.ly/jkKxp

We would like to congratulate Barbara Matejcic and Andrei Popoviciu, two of our colleagues from our alumni network, who ...
07/06/2024

We would like to congratulate Barbara Matejcic and Andrei Popoviciu, two of our colleagues from our alumni network, who have won the European Press Prize 2024 awards.

Barbara received the Special Prize for the story 'Nomen Nescio: Dying En Route to Europe, Buried Without a Name,' which was part of the Border Graves investigation series published by Balkan Insight and other media.

Read the story: https://t.ly/_2u0W

Our other alumnus, Andrei Popoviciu, won the award for the story 'How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa.'
Read the story: https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-militarize-africa-senegal-borders-anti-migration-surveillance

We are proud to inform you that Barbara Matejcic and Andrei Popoviciu, two of our colleagues from the Fellowship alumni ...
07/06/2024

We are proud to inform you that Barbara Matejcic and Andrei Popoviciu, two of our colleagues from the Fellowship alumni network, have received the European Press Prize 2024 awards.

We would like to congratulate Barbara Matejcic and Andrei Popoviciu, two of our colleagues from the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network's Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence alumni network, who have won the European Press Prize 2024 awards.

Barbara received the Special Prize for the story ‘Nomen Nescio: Dying En Route to Europe, Buried Without a Name,’ which was part of the Border Graves investigation series published by Balkan Insight and other media.

Read the story: https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-militarize-africa-senegal-borders-anti-migration-surveillance

Another Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence alumnus, Andrei Popoviciu, won the Migration Journalism Award for ‘How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa.’

Read the story: https://rb.gy/6sdjtz

We also want to congratulate our colleagues Apostolos Fotiadis, Ludek Stavinoha, and Giacomo Zandonini, whose story investigating problems with the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online was a runner-up for the European Press Prize’s Investigative Reporting Award.

Read the story: https://t.ly/jkKxp

24/05/2024
Our annual Fellowship event in Viena ended with the award ceremony for our 2022 generation. 🏆🎖We are happy for our winne...
22/05/2024

Our annual Fellowship event in Viena ended with the award ceremony for our 2022 generation. 🏆🎖

We are happy for our winners and proud of all our fellows. 🤩🤗

🥇 Tadeusz Michrowski (Poland) won the first prize for the story Catch-22 on the Baltic: The Twilight of Poland’s Coastal Fishermen. 👉 https://balkaninsight.com/2024/02/06/catch-22-on-the-baltic-the-twilight-of-polands-coastal-fishermen/

🥈 David Ilieski (North Macedonia) won the second prize for the story - The People vs the Casino-Industrial Complex: Inside the Macedonian Gambling Boom. 👉 https://balkaninsight.com/2024/03/19/the-people-vs-the-casino-industrial-complex-inside-the-macedonian-gambling-boom/

🥉 Andrei Popovicu (Romania) won the third prize for the story you will have the opportunity to read on Balkan Insight in the coming days.

Congrats to all winners, and good luck to our new generation of Fellowships. 💪

One more time, thanks to all participants, guests, speakers, and our friends from the ERSTE Foundation for the wonderful time in Vienna. 💙

On the second day of our annual Fellowship event in Vienna, we had a peer-to-peer exchange about the Fellowship program ...
22/05/2024

On the second day of our annual Fellowship event in Vienna, we had a peer-to-peer exchange about the Fellowship program with the alumni from 2022, sharing their insights with the incoming generation of 2024.

Stay with us as we will share the atmosphere and results from the award ceremony tonight.

We are delighted to introduce our new generation of our fellows. 🤩Today we had a very productive and successful first da...
21/05/2024

We are delighted to introduce our new generation of our fellows. 🤩
Today we had a very productive and successful first day of our annual Fellowship event. 💪
Huge thanks to all our participants, instructors, and our friends from the ERSTE Foundation. 💙
Stay with us for more updates in the coming days. 👀

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Keen to encourage professional, in-depth, cross-border reporting in Southeast Europe, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and Erste Foundation set up the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme. In 2020, we have expanded the programme to include countries in Central Europe: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

The newly branded Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence now covers 14 countries and each year provides 10 journalists with funding and professional support to conduct their own research project. Fellows also benefit from membership in an alumni network of the best mid-career professionals across the CEE region.