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Behind the seams: Exposing the exploitation of Albania’s garment workers

How an award-winning investigation exposed the hidden realities of Albania’s women-led garment workforce The story uncovering the exploitation of women in Albania’s garment factories secured the Citizens’s team third prize at the EU Investigative Journalism Awards 2025. Their investigation brought long-overdue attention to the urgent and often-overlooked social and economic challenges faced by thousands of women across the country. For years, journalist Erisa Kryeziu

Western Balkans footprints: Innovation in media training makes an impact 

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Running a media organisation in the Western Balkans (WB) is far from easy. A region beset by instability, corruption with challenges to media freedom which provide a fertile space for disinformation and biased reporting. Thomson Foundation is working to support media in the region and its recent programmes have made significant progress in creating stronger more financially resilient organisations through increased digital presence, audience

Striving Nationalism Among Youth: Who is Adding Fuel to the Fire?

Young people in the Western Balkans face hardship understanding their realities and knowing one another due to overwhelming ongoing historical disputes, different perceptions of the recent past, and of social and political issues that make up their lives.  Experts in Serbia, Albania, and Montenegro see poor education, prejudices, and the narratives that come from political leaders as main contributing factors in the rise of

Lessons learned from delivering business support to media outlets

Lessons learned from delivering business support to media outlets
For almost two years, I had the opportunity to work with the media and mentors through the Media for All project. Initially, I developed an online course that dealt with the development of  business model for the media, and then I worked as a mentor with several media. I learned a lot during this process and had the opportunity to take a deeper look

Payments are made to contractors in instalments due to COVID-19

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The lives of the young actors and actresses during the pandemic “When you realize that you’ve been working for six years and you have good references, but contributions to your pension or health plan have never been paid for your work, you realise that what you read in the media is absurd. If you told this to someone who works in the field of

Baby steps to environmental journalism

Baby steps to environmental journalism
Climate change, abuse of green energy practices, as well as earnings of powerful investors from various projects that are detrimental to nature – in addition to allegations of the government turning a blind eye  – have had a particularly harmful effect on the environment in Serbia. Farmers are losing the rivers that have enabled them to live life in the countryside, and their survival

How data visualisation helps in fighting the disinformation about Covid-19: Find examples of good practices

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The global Covid-19 pandemic has made media outlets around the world scrambling in order to produce explanatory stories which help the audiences understand the pandemic, its causes and effects – for example, how the virus spreads and what measures we can all take in order to minimise it. Of course, the journalistic core value of accuracy, along with the journalistic process of verification, are

Job Scarcity Drives Balkan Youth Away

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During the past decade, unemployment among youth in the Western Balkans has been a persistent issue. Young people from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo are leaving the Balkans massively in search of better job opportunities and a chance for a higher quality of life.  “Although there is unemployment in Kosovo, I think that doctors, lawyers, architects would not be left without a job.

Beyond Lockdown. The ‘pandemic scar’ on Balkan youth

According to the International Labour Organisation, Covid-19 impacted Balkan young people disproportionately, causing unemployment, poor education, and mental health issues that may last beyond the pandemic. This raises deep concerns given that, even before the pandemic, young people in the Western Balkans were already facing significant challenges concerning employment and social inclusion. But is it too late to avoid a ‘pandemic scar’ on youth? What

Inclusion of persons with disabilities achieved through their employment

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Persons with disabilities are one of the marginalized groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia facing discrimination and stigmatization on a daily basis. The definition of a person with a disability is still not constant in BiH, although BiH adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but in Serbia by law the term “persons with disabilities” means “persons with congenital

Kosovo, RTV Tema: Focus on high quality production

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Ferizaj/Uroševac-based RTV Tema in the frame of the Media for All project enhanced video production capacities, launched two high-quality TV series, improved online sales via in-stream video ads, and introduced a new, subscriber-based, platform and in-store radio service.   In order to be capable of focusing both on commercial and documentary / news video production, RTV Tema hired four new people in the production and

The “fight” for a job sends nurses to Germany

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Ramize Salihaj is currently with her family at her home in Kosovo to spend her first vacation in her hometown since she started working as a nurse in Germany. The 23-year-old has obtained a bachelor’s degree in nursing at one of the private colleges in Kosovo, and started working at her first job in Germany three months ago.   She points out that the reason
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