Journalism genres

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) launched a cross-border journalism platform on Thursday with the aim of helping journalists all over the globe by providing them with knowledge and assistance necessary in today's world.

The EC will invest in new initiatives to support independent journalism, sustainable media companies and incentivize cooperation among public broadcasters.

This was announced at a EU-Western Balkan Media Days conference in Tirana according to a Nov. 10 European Commission press release, Beta repoerted.

Some 35 reporters from the Balkans and across the world gathered on Monday in the historic resort city of Dubrovnik in Croatia for the eighth BIRN Summer School Master Class on Investigative Journalism.

An investigative media outlet from Serbia, the Serbian Centre for Investigative Journalism, CINS, won the European Press Prize 2017 on Thursday in Amsterdam.

"It feels great to win this award. It is an encouragement to keep working and a confirmation of our efforts so far," Dino Jahic, CINS editor-in-chief, said on receiving the award.

Lindita Cela has been named winner of CEI SEEMO's prestigious Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism in 2016 for her uncompromising investigations into corruption scandals and organized crime, including the problem of human trafficking in Europe.

If you thought long-form journalism would die from the shift to mobile news, think again.

A Pew Research Center study released Thursday found consumers spend more time on their phones with long-form news articles than with shorter ones, and that the elusive notion of "engagement" increases with word count.

The Central European Initiative, CEI, and the South East Europe Media Organisation, SEEMO, on Thursday awarded Aleksandra Bogdani for her professional achievements as an intrepid reporter covering complex stories of human trafficking, organised crime and child abuse, corruption and national security.

She received the CEI/SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits.

What is a journalist or who is a journalist? This is an explosive question in Turkey, as not only the government but a large section of the Turkish media as well make such a description of journalists that only monkeys could perhaps appreciate it. It is as if being a journalist necessitates licking boots, particularly those of the president and the prime minister.

The Digital News Initiative (DNI) is a partnership between Google and news publishers in Europe aimed to support high-quality journalism through technology and innovation. The goal is to encourage a more sustainable news ecosystem – and to promote innovation in digital journalism — through ongoing collaboration and dialogue between the tech and news sectors.

Today’s Google doodle honors 151 years from the birth of Nellie Bly, the legendary reporter, who had once pretended to be mentally ill in order to be put in a female psychiatric institution and report on her findings.