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Ash-covered budgets: Inside North Macedonia’s power plant corruption scandal

How an IRL investigation uncovered inflated contracts, institutional complicity, and millions lost from North Macedonia’s state budget Maja Jovanovska and Bojan Stojanovski’s investigation for North Macedonia’s Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL), won the 2025 EU Investigative Journalism Regional award for exposing large-scale corruption involving public and private actors. This also marks the second regional award for the IRL team, as they were the first winners

Crack the Code: How to Talk to Web Developers about your Media Website (Re)design

Working on a website for your business can be an equally exciting and daunting prospect. Exciting, because it allows you to utilise new technologies for further development of your media business. Daunting, because the process itself is complex, time-consuming, and involves multidisciplinary teams who are not always the best at finding the same language. But, worry not!  The goal of this article is to

Youth media in the fight for environmental preservation

There are no limits to reporting on the environment, as this urgent global problem concerns us all. Media outlets in the Western Balkans, given the “ecological bombs” that exist in the region, which often affect the environment of most of these countries, have something to report on every day. Through collaborative efforts, they should reach out to citizens, highlight the existence of these problems,

Why you should not give up on the subscription model?

The period of the pandemic caused by the corona virus has greatly influenced the change in the habits of citizens in the online environment and the use of payment institutions that are offered. According to a large number of reports from relevant institutions and media, it was a period of growth in e-commerce and various subscription models that persisted, maybe not to that extent,

How can local and investigative journalists collaborate better?

It is often a challenge in the media business to produce successful collaborations and cooperation between journalists, especially when it comes to journalists from different media. Even without the many problems journalism is facing today, it is also a competitive profession, where many times opportunities for cooperation are lost somewhere between “who gets the news first” and “whose story is better”. But if we

Innovation in the Newsroom – How to Stay Ahead in the Digital Age

With the wave of discussions, dilemmas and worry that the introduction of Chat GPT created across the industry, media organisations suddenly started thinking about whether technology has become a threat to their jobs. But, artificial intelligence (AI) and innovative practices in the newsroom are not new, not a distant future dream.  Robots are already collecting and verifying data, writing articles and adapting them to

How did stories about activism and human rights end up on the most read portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

The majority of nonprofit sector employees often face a similar frustration – why the topics they deal with, and the results they achieve that improve people’s lives, do not have greater visibility. In response to these frustrations, Diskriminacija.ba was created – an online media outlet focused on stories related to human rights, with a mission to reach as many people as possible with these

Women’s cooperation as the key to the success of ZOS Radio from Tešanj

Radio ZOS of Bosnia and Herzegovina consists of four women. Although this decision was not intentional when the media was launched, today they proudly emphasize that it is a women’s media outlet that deals with important and brave local topics, despite pressures and often threats. Launched in 1997 in Tešanj, this commercial radio station, like many colleagues, found itself on the brink of survival

It is not all about views: The guide to optimising your YouTube channel

YouTube is a powerful platform for media businesses, especially in the publishing industry. With over 2 billion logged-in users visiting YouTube each month, it’s a great way to reach a wide audience and promote your brand. If we dive deeper locally per country of the Balkan region, more than 62% of all internet users use YouTube on regular basis. However, competition is fierce, and
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