Deadline: 30-Jun-21
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has announced the applications for Summer School Offers Investigative Reporting Training on Croatia Coast to learn investigative skills from award-winning trainers and journalists.
The Summer School of Investigative Reporting, which will be held this year in Croatia’s picturesque coastal village of Mlini from August 23-30, will again put together top journalists and editors for a week-long training programme.
Due to the global pandemic, BIRN has changed its usual programme in order to ensure that health and safety measures are respected. This year’s hybrid programme will include both online and offline sessions.
This year, BIRN is teaming up with journalists and trainers from Lighthouse Reports, an award-winning non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands which leads complex transnational investigations blending traditional journalistic methods with emerging techniques like open source intelligence and specialisms like data science.
For the first time this summer, applicants will have the chance to choose one of four course themes: Arms, Surveillance, Agriculture and Waste. Part of the training programme will be focused on the three themes that attract most interest from the participants.
Benefits
- They are providing 30 full scholarships for selected participants.
- This will cover accommodation, meals, as well as transportation expenses of up to 150 euros.
- Apart from the training, editorial support and mentorship, BIRN will, through their Investigative Initiative Fund, provide participants with fees.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible participants include journalists who have experience in investigative reporting and who have covered the course theme they have chosen.
- Journalists from the following countries are eligible to apply: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Turkey.
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