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EU Investigative Journalism Award 2025: Meet the Winners

The EU Investigative Journalism Award 2025 has officially concluded, celebrating the most impactful investigative work from the Western Balkans and Türkiye. This year’s awarded stories highlight the role of investigative journalism in strengthening freedom of expression, advancing the rule of law, and promoting transparency and accountability across the region. Each winning investigation represents how reporting can challenge abuse of power, expose corruption, and bring

When you are not sure what to do next, devise your media strategy

Until recently, grants for media outlets operating in the Western Balkans, the broader CEE region and the European Union were mostly aimed at directly supporting the production of content. Now, the purpose of these grants has shifted from the direct funding of (news) production to accelerating the development of long-term strategic solutions and the creation of self-sustaining business models. In our region, strategy is

How to get to know your local audience and engage with them more?

In the media business it is challenging to imagine who your audience is. When I was a deputy editor-in-chief of a well-established business magazine, before the audience analysis software was introduced and life without the internet was still a reality, we often imagined „The Reader”. We took a picture of one of the well-known businessmen of the country, wrote a few specifics and tried

Blockchain in journalism – Web 3 is coming for us

How can blockchain platforms revolutionize journalism and accountability The rise of blockchain technology has led to the creation of many innovative solutions in different fields, but just a few of those have made their way into journalism. There are some mentionable attempts coming from world well-known editorials such as Time, or Associated Press, that tried experimenting with NFTs for example, but still nothing big. 

More than 260 submissions for the EU Investigative Journalism Award

A total of 267 applications from 7 countries, representing 125 media outlets and featuring a diverse group of authors (both individuals and groups), have been submitted for the highly anticipated 2023 edition of the prestigious EU Award for Investigative Journalism. The call, which remained open from 8th May to 20th June 2023, garnered an impressive variety of topics, a diversity of talented authors, and

Beyond News: How Education Can Boost Revenue for Media Organisations

How to make readers pay for online content? The billion-euro question of modern publishing has more than one answer. Publishers have tried many tactics with various degrees of success. Some of them bet on exclusive niche content, others offer club membership with various perks, ask for donations or mix all approaches in appealing subscription bundles.  What most successful models seem to share is a

Navigating the Promise and Perils of AI: What Every Media Professional Needs to Know About ChatGPT

AI is, in many ways, a revolutionary event, similar to what Gutenberg’s printing press was in the 15th century, or radio, TV, and even internet in the 20th. It’s a technology that will permanently reshape society. For many of us, AI means everything we learned from multiple dystopian movies (2001 A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, Matrix, Blade Runner, …). But can AI be used

Disrupting the Market: How is one small media challenging the industry giant in Poland

Is it possible to create, in one year, a quality information service for a region with a population of 4.3 million, including more than 2 million living in a single agglomeration comprising several cities? Yes, and successfully, as exemplified by the Polish website Slazag.pl. It was founded by several journalists who left the editorial staff of Poland’s largest regional daily, Dziennik Zachodni. Team of Slazag.pl,

Calls Open for EU Investigative Journalism Award 2023

Journalists from the Western Balkans region and Türkiye are invited to submit their investigative stories The EU Award for Investigative Journalism 2023 is now accepting submissions. Once again, the prestigious Award celebrates the best investigative stories published in the previous calendar year and is awarded in the Western Balkans and Türkiye.  This year, aside from national awards, the EU Award is introducing a regional

Gen Z wants content that is factual, interesting and easily understandable: Chief-editor of a Slovakian popular media outlet shares their insights

REFRESHER is a popular online media outlet writing about news and lifestyle topics attractive for young audiences. Started as a high school project, they have grown to rank among the most-visited websites in Slovakia, with 1.5mil monthly readers. Their goal is to help build a modern generation with an open mind, not looking at the world as a binary of black and white. In
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