BIRN Summer School 2026 – Final Day. From Heatwaves to Public Spending: How Journalists Can Find and Investigate Environmental Stories and Pitch Investigations
The final day of the BIRN Summer School 2026 featured several sessions on environmental investigative journalism. Afterwards, participants presented their story pitches to a jury. The strongest ideas will receive funding for further development.
BIRN Summer School 2026 – Day 5: Legal Risks, Geolocation, FOI, Visual Investigation, Environmental Journalism
Legal pressures, geolocation and visual investigation were on the agenda on the fifth day of BIRN Summer School. The experts’ topics also included Freedom of Investigation requests and environmental reporting.
BIRN Summer School 2026 – Day 4: Engaging Citizens, Fact-Checking and Investigating Pollution
The experts’ sessions during Day 4 of the BIRN Summer School covered the importance of fact-checking, the basics of policy-oriented investigative reporting and how to use citizen engagement tools for investigations.
BIRN Summer School 2026 – Day 3: Journalists’ Security, Investigations’ Impact and the Art of Interview
Journalists at the summer school learned more tools to keep them safe in the real world and participated in sessions on policy-oriented investigative reporting and the art of interviewing.
BIRN Summer School 2026 – Day 2: Open-Source Intelligence and Advanced Data Journalism
During the second day of the BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2026, participants had an opportunity to learn more about open-source intelligence and advanced data journalism from the top experts in the field.
BIRN’s 16th Summer School Begins in Ohrid
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) kicked off the 16th edition of its Summer School of Investigative Reporting in Ohrid, North Macedonia, led by some of the world’s top journalists.
Inside the BIRN Summer School Where Journalism Gets Real
Most journalism training teaches you how to report the news. Very few places actually show you how investigative journalism works in practice.
BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2026: Don’t Just Report the News – Investigate It!
Fast stories fade. The important ones need digging.
Applications are now open for the BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2026. This is a space for journalists who want to move beyond daily reporting and focus on real investigative work.
Don’t Just Report the News: Go Deeper and Investigate it
The BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2026 is coming to the beautiful city of Ohrid, North Macedonia this August 17-23.
BIRN Summer School – Day 5: Story Pitching, Big Data and Legal Risks
Blake Morrison, Investigative Projects Editor at Reuters News, opened the fifth day of the 15th BIRN Summer School, where he gave attendees advice on how to pitch their stories.
BIRN Summer School Day 4: Fact Checking, Hidden Data and Knowledge Transfer
The fourth day of the 15th BIRN Summer School started with an excellent lecture by Milica Stojanovic, a journalist and fact-checker at Balkan Insight.
BIRN Summer School Day 3: Investigative Stories, AI, Safety and Mental Health
The third day of the BIRN Summer School in Pristina continued with the Advanced Data Journalism course, taught by Jonathan Soma, professor of data journalism at Columbia University’s Journalism School.
BIRN Summer School Day 2: Open-Source Intelligence, Data, AI and Digital Security
During the second day of BIRN’s Summer School of Investigative Reporting, participants learned how to use open source data to gather information, how to use AI in everyday work and how to increase their own digital security.
BIRN’s 15th Summer School Begins in Pristina
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), kicked off the 15th edition of its Summer School of Investigative Reporting on Monday in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, led by some of the world’s top journalists.
BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2025: Pristina Awaits!
BIRN Summer School brings top investigative journalists to Pristina this August.
