Besar Likmeta is the editor in chief of BIRN Albania and its award-winning publication Reporter.al. For a long time Likmeta was Albanian correspondent for BIRN’s flagship publication BalkanInsight.com and has contributed to various international media, including The Christian Science Monitor, Global Post, Transitions Online, Foreign Policy, Washington Post and others.
Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2024 Sessions
Environmental and Sustainable Energy Investigative Journalism
This session will introduce journalists to BIRN Albania’s investigative techniques used to uncover a major corruption scandal involving the Minister of Environment and the Deputy Prime Minister, detailing the methods employed to expose fraud and money laundering in public-private partnership contracts for waste incinerators, including how leads were obtained, documents secured, sources interviewed, and narratives crafted.