Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/serbia/)
In this excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, executive director and editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Dzidic, discusses best practices for covering combatants and other hostile actors in war and conflict.
In this excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, executive director and editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Džidić, discusses best practices for covering genocide and other crimes against humanity.
A panel about the “brave new world” of surveillance at the 2023 IPI World Media Congress in Vienna discusses success stories around the world of journalists and activists pushing back against new and enhanced surveillance methods.
¿Te sientes agotado/a después de realizar una investigación o cobertura periodística? Conoce los consejos que dan los reporteros investigativos que han experimentado el “burn out”.
Serbia’s investigative nonprofits face an extraordinary array of threats and harassment due to a new model in which autocrats outsource repression to oligarchs, pro-government media, street gangs, and other proxies. In a series of interviews, three leading editors told GIJN about the sinister tactics they face, and the determination required to keep accountability alive.
In the first article in a short series, the Media Development Investment Fund looked at the first two of the four major elements of media capture: capture of the media regulator, and control of the public service broadcaster. In this article, it looks at the use of state financing as a control tool, and taking ownership to interfere in editorial.
Governments around the world, some which have sent workers home, are announcing interruptions in responding to freedom of information requests. Journalists are being told to expect delays in more than a dozen countries. But press freedom advocates warn that countries are taking big steps backward just when the free flow of information is most needed. GIJN’s Toby McIntosh rounds up some of the nations which have been affected.
KRIK, a journalism network that investigates crime and corruption, began publishing a database listing the properties of Serbian politicians in December last year. The revelations have made front-page news in some newspapers and are fueling online debates.
More and more power in the hands of President Aleksandar Vučić, mainstream press too friendly with power, growing difficulties for independent journalism. This is what Serbia’s media looks like today, according to Stevan Dojčinović, the editor-in-chief of the country’s KRIK investigative group.