Deadline: 16-Sep-22
Are you a student of journalism, young or mid-career journalist eager to expand your journalistic reporting skills? Do you want to develop your capacities in reporting and advocating for labour rights in the Kosovo labour market? Do you think you have the ambition and creativity to be one of the prospective winners of a 500 Euro bursary to write a story on labour rights, health and safety at work? Then look no further! Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has launched an Open Call for Participation in BIRN Kosovo’s one-day training module for journalists to report on labour rights issues.
The aim of this project is to improve the working conditions for vulnerable categories of employees, notably within the private sector, including workplace health and safety for women and men, through the promotion of social dialogue between workers and duty bearers.
The bursary and the one-day training module are organized in the framework of the EU-funded project “Protecting and promoting labour rights of vulnerable groups in the labour market” implemented by ATRC and BIRN Kosovo.
Details
- BIRN will select the 10 best story pitches to be supported through a bursary amounting to 500 Euros, through which the 10 journalists with the winning pitches will have the opportunity to conduct research, analysis, investigative articles and other publications on various issues that pertain to the field of labour rights.
- Moreover, on September 27, 2022 BIRN will organize a one-day training module with journalists and journalism students on the process of reporting on labour rights issues who wish to benefit from the bursary. Please note that in order to be part of the bursary program, interested parties should apply and participate.
- The one-day training module will bring together 20 young and mid-career journalists as well as students of journalism from different communities, who will have the opportunity to acquire knowledge and hands-on skills on how to report on labour rights issues, including reporting on injuries at work and labour rights abuses, safety in the workplace, mistreatment and breaches of employee rights, failure to adhere to work schedules, working without proper contracts or lack of employment contracts, violating annual leave and maternity leave entitlements, to name a few. The training module will be delivered by BIRN’s own team of award-winning journalists and editors, who have extensive experience in investigating, reporting on and advocating for labour rights issues.
- BIRN Kosovo’s team of journalists and editors will provide editorial support to the winning journalists in the process of identifying their topic of interest, in the drafting of their editorial work and in the final publication of their media products. Notably, journalists’ works will be published on BIRN’s flagship anti-disinformation platform, KALLXO.com in a TV/online format. The platform enjoys high viewership and readership rates among the Kosovo public, including its social media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
Eligibility Criteria
- Students of journalism, young and mid-career journalists across different regions in Kosovo, who are interested to learn more about reporting and advocating for labour rights issues and become one of the potential winners of ten 500 Euro bursaries, are eligible to apply for this call.
- Applicants from marginalized communities in Kosovo, including members of minority ethnic communities and women that fulfill the criteria are encouraged to apply for this call.
For more information, visit https://birn.eu.com/news-and-events/open-call-for-participation-in-birn-kosovos-one-day-training-module-for-journalists-to-report-on-labour-rights-issues/