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Award: 1st prize
Winner: Aleksa Tesic
For: the series of articles “Silent Spying: How Serbian Intelligence Hacks Activists’ Phones – Without Them Knowing”, in which it was revealed Serbia’s Security Information Agency (BIA) used the Israeli technology Cellebrite to unlock the phones of activists it interrogated.
Award: 3rd prize
Winners: Sasa Dragojlo and Avi Scharf
For: their series of articles “Regardless of War Crimes Claims, Serbia’s Arms Sales to Israel Soar.”
Award: 1st prize
Winners: Vladimir Karaj and Anesti Barjamemaj from Reporter.al and Voice of America
For: their investigation into environmental crime at the Sharra landfill, exposing toxic waste discharges into the Erzen river.
Award: 2sd prize
Winner: Ola Xama
For: a story that uncovered the role of the mayor of Tirana in the controversial Tirana incinerator project.
Award: 1st prize
Winners: Nino Bilajac and freelance Selma Ucanbarlic
For: their work on the pyramid scheme of eMagnetix that cost many people their investments.
Award: 1st prize
Winners: Kreshnik Gashi and Behar Mustafa
For: their series of investigations into corruption with building permits in Brezovica.
Award: 2nd prize
Winners: Jeta Xharra and Mediana Halili
For: their investigative reporting exposing discrimination against women applying for top positions at public broadcaster Radio Television of Kosovo, RTK.
Award: 2nd prize
Winner: Vlera Shabani
For: the research “We have a lot of expenses”: Parents of children with diabetes are waiting for the hand of the state.
Award: best TV story of the year
Winners: Adelina Ahmeti, Behar Mustafa, Mediana Halili, Shqipron Xhema, Valon Fana, and Xheneta Murtezaj
For: the new product “Shiriti” (The tape) which aims to hold municipal leaders accountable when it comes to the work they promote on social media and the quality of the works in the field.
Award: The Best Conflict Reporting
Winner: Kreshnik Gashi
For: his documentary “Putin Calling: Russia’s Disinformation Flows Unchecked Through Balkans” which was produced in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Montenegro and explores the scale of Kremlin-backed disinformation in these countries and its dangerous influence on the public.
Award: The Best Cameraman of the Year
Winner: Denis Sllovinja
For: the footage he captured in the aftermath of the January 2023 floods in Skenderaj.
Award: The Best Reporting on Confidence Building
Winner: Arbrita Uka
For: her article “In Kosovo, Girls’ Football Scores Goal Against Ethnic Intolerance” which shows that in Kosovo, despite Albanian and Serbian communities living largely separate lives, friendly cooperation between football teams can be achieved.
Award: the first prize in the category of Women Empowerment
Winner: Adelina Ahmeti
For: her investigation which shows the struggles a woman faced against the system in her attempt to get a divorce from her husband, whom she had previously reported for domestic violence while she was fighting for child custody.
Award: 2nd prize
Winner: Djurdja Radulovic
For: her investigation titled “Nobody Checks: Bying Banned Pesticides in Montenegro,” a compelling piece that reveals the dangerous consequences of unregulated sales of banned pesticides in Montenegro, posing serious risks to health and the environment.
Award: 2nd prize
Winner: Jovana Damjanovic
For: her story, “No Gender Marker Change for Married Individuals,” which analyzes the Montenegrin LGBTIQ community’s efforts to amend the legal provisions regarding the change of registered gender in the civil registry of births.
Award: 2nd prize
Winner: Sasa Dragojlo
For: his investigation, “Albanian-Supplied AKs Fuel Violence on Refugee Route Through Serbia”. The story probes the role of North African gangs in the traffic and the implications for security across Europe.
Award: 2nd prize
Winners: Gordana Andric and Aleksandar Djordjevic
For: their investigation that uncovered a remarkably widespread network of individuals who embezzled millions of euros from the state budget through public competitions, exposing systemic failures in the mechanism intended to fund public interest projects.
Award: 3rd prize
Winner: Radmilo Markovic
For: his investigation into illegal construction and legalisation in Belgrade
Award: 3rd prize
Winner: Andjela Milivojevic
For: her investigation, “I Was Powerless’: Serbian Women Detail Devastating Impact of Revenge Porn”. During this investigation, in interviews with BIRN, more than two dozen Serbian women told of the shock, fear and shame that struck them as victims of revenge porn. In Serbia, their legal avenues are limited.
Award: 1st prize
Winners: Gordana Andric and Aleksandar Djordjevic
For: their investigation that uncovered a remarkably widespread network of individuals who embezzled millions of euros from the state budget through public competitions, exposing systemic failures in the mechanism intended to fund public interest projects.
Award: Special commendations
Winners: Dragana Kovacevic Prica, Teodora Curcic and Gordana Andric
For: their story ‘Domestic Violence Against Children: Invisible Victims’ which was written by BIRN in collaboration with media outlets 021, Juzne vesti, Bujanovacke, Glas Sumadije and Ozon
Award: The Best Feminist Reporting
Winner: Andjela Milivojevic
For: her investigation, “I Was Powerless’: Serbian Women Detail Devastating Impact of Revenge Porn”. During this investigation, in interviews with BIRN, more than two dozen Serbian women told of the shock, fear and shame that struck them as victims of revenge porn. In Serbia, their legal avenues are limited.
Award: The Best Investigative Journalism – Young Journalists Category
Winner: Aleksa Tesic
For: his work related to the misuse of personal data of citizens, journalists, activists and generally politically unsuitable people in Serbia.
Award: 2nd prize
Winner: Frosina Dimeska
For: outstanding investigative journalism in North Macedonia. Dimeska’s work exposed a significant scandal involving a controversial Ukrainian figure, Oleksandr Onishchenko, who managed to obtain a North Macedonian passport despite being under sanctions from both the United States and Ukraine, where the authorities sought his extradition.
The judges recognised the impact of Dimeska’s investigation, which lead to the government revoking Onishchenko’s North Macedonian citizenship. However, no individuals have been held accountable for the scandal till now.
Award: in the ‘Contribution to the Community’ category
Winner: Haris Rovcanin
For: his work on the Database of Judicially Established Facts about the War in Bosnia. The Database of Judicially Determined Facts is a project of BIRN BiH supported by the United Nations Democracy Fund, aimed at creating fact-based sources of information, which can be used for educational and informational purposes, thus contributing to combating disinformation and to improving media literacy.
Award: in the ’Young Professional Journalists’ category
Winner: Azra Husaric Omerovic
For: her investigative work producing the story ‘Bosnian Leukaemia Patient Dies After Anti-Medical Advice from ‘Healer’ about a group of self-styled healers that led to a tragic death, a valuable example of commitment to uncovering lesser-known stories in a modern and multimedia format.
Award: 2nd prize
Winner: Dzana Brkanic and Lamija Grebo
For: an investigation, ‘Suspended Sentences Do not Prevent the Spread of Hate’, which was based on verdicts passed down before all courts in Bosnia over a ten-year period. It revealed also that there was no unified system for registering such crimes, which has made the monitoring and investigating of those cases more difficult.
Award: for journalistic ethics and courage
Winner: Sasa Dragojlo
For: recognition of ethics and courage in journalism. Zeljko Bodrozic, president of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia, IJAS, said Dragojlo had been recognised for “courageously and professionally investigating and informing the public about important topics of general interest for years, such as the corrupt business of selling ammunition production machines, the war between smugglers in the north of Vojvodina, money laundering through the construction of residential and commercial buildings throughout Serbia, and the recent armed conflict in Banjska.”
Award: 2nd prize
Winner: Jelena Zoric
For: series of stories about a psychiatrist who has been recording false diagnoses into his patients’ medical records for the sake of a clinical trial he participated in, and about the role that Serbian state institutions played in this trial.
Award: 3rd prize
Winner: Sasa Dragojlo
For: an investigation into Serbia’s exports of millions of euros’ worth of rockets to Myanmar in 2021, days after a military coup that has since triggered a civil war – ignoring the obligation that the government should revoke any arms export permit if conditions in the destination country change and if there is a risk that the arms might be used to violate human rights. Dragojlo received this award with colleagues Dina Djordjevic, Marija Ristic, and Jovana Tomic, with whom he worked on this investigation..
Award: in the ‘Contribution to the Community’ category
Winner: Haris Rovcanin
For: his work on the Database of Judicially Established Facts about the War in Bosnia. The Database of Judicially Determined Facts is a project of BIRN BiH supported by the United Nations Democracy Fund, aimed at creating fact-based sources of information, which can be used for educational and informational purposes, thus contributing to combating disinformation and to improving media literacy.
Award: the prestigious award by the daily newspaper Danas
Winner: BIRN Serbia
For: journalistic courage and achievements in investigative and analytical reporting. In a statement, the jury said BIRN Serbia’s newsroom had produced so many important stories over the past 12 months that it was impossible to select just one journalist for the award. Its work confirmed BIRN Serbia’s status “as one of the most influential investigative media in Serbia”, it said. It is only the second time since 2000 that an entire newsroom has won the award.
Award: prestigious award in the online media category
Winner: Radmilo Markovic
For: his multimedia investigation that identified hundreds of buildings built in Belgrade without permits in the seven years since new construction legislation entered into force, and made legal via apparently illegal means.
Award: prize for education and research by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office – RYCO
Winner: Antigona Isufi
For: her article ‘Love divided: Kosovo-Serbian Couple Struggle to Build a Home in Disapproving Society’. The article was about Suzana Maric, a 25-year-old, from Novi Sad, Serbia, and Gent Sejdiu, also 25, from Ferizaj, Kosovo, for whom centuries-old enmity and the bloody war between the two countries have not been an obstacle to living together.
Award: 1st prize
Winner: Kreshnik Gashi
For: his series, ‘Blerja e Kryeprokurorit I dhe II’ (Purchase of the Chief Prosecutor). This two-year investigation blew the lid off a high-profile corruption scandal involving a businessman and a prosecutor in Kosovo.
Award: best TV story of the year
Winner: Behar Mustafa
For: an investigation ’Brezovica Dossier’, a series of TV shows on politicians and business owners suspected of bribery in relation to construction without any criteria, which has destroyed the Kosovo mountain resort of Brezovica.
Award: best TV story of the year
Winner: Valon Fana
For: the story ’Trepça During Kurti Government’, which highlighted problems that the old giant Trepca is facing, including mismanagement, difficult working conditions, miners’ complaints, lack of investments and the absence of a state hand on the enterprise.
Award: in the field of children’s protection
Winner: Adelina Ahmeti
For: her story ‘Sex Crime File: How the Accused of Sexual Assault of a Student Was Released’, which resulted in an investigation that made the prosecution indict a second suspect who was previously somehow ‘forgotten’ and considered just as a witness.
Award: 3rd prize
Winner: Anila Hoxha
For: her investigation ‘Sekret shtetëror’: Historia pa lavdi e degradimit të flotës ajrore shqiptare’, which explores the human and financial costs of helicopter contracts in Albania.
Award: 1st prize
Winner: Kreshnik Gashi
For: his series, ‘Blerja e Kryeprokurorit I dhe II’ (Purchase of the Chief Prosecutor). This two-year investigation blew the lid off a high-profile corruption scandal involving a businessman and a prosecutor in Kosovo.
Award: Best media advocacy journalism for nature conservation
Winner: Blerina Gjoka
For: her story about the readiness of Albania’s government to set aside protected status for parts of the country’s coast in the interests of private investors set on building tourist villas and hotels.
Award: Certificate of Appreciation for BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina
For: BIRN BiH’s contribution toward raising awareness about the importance of the culture of memory.
Award: First prize
Winner: Klodiana Lala
For: The story “Albanian Crime Story: Hostage to the Cocaine Supply Chain” which reveals how the European cocaine trade, once dominated by mafias from Italy and Spain, is being transformed by new entrants. And it shows how the cost of this transformation “in terms of chronic corruption and sporadic violence“ is being diverted away from the market, to poorer countries such as Albania.
Award: First prize
Winner: Kreshnik Gashi, Visar Prebreza and Bahar Mustafa
For: Series of stories: ”The Justice on the Market”, “‘The North File”, “The Link Between the Company Which is on US Blacklist and the Investments in Ulcinj” and “Racketeers File: The Judge Negotiates the Case”
Award: Third prize
Winner: Saša Dragojlo for “People Smuggling: Money, Violence, and Ties to the Security Services”
Winner: Aleksandar Đorđević and Miodrag Marković for a series of stories on sorrupt mechanism in the electric power industry of Serbia.
Award: Special recognition for media contribution to the promotion and protection of children’s rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2022
Winner: Emina Dizdarević for her analysis, “Experts Warn that New History Textbook in Tuzla Deepens Divisions”. In it, she explained that, as of April, elementary school pupils in the Tuzla Canton have learned about the 1992-5 war in more detail for the first time through a new appendix to the history textbook for grade nine, which experts call one-sided.
Winner: Jasmin Begić for analysis, “Central Bosnia Canton Does not Respect Verdict on Abolishing Segregation in Schools”, about the failure to respect court verdicts due to which pupils throughout Bosnia spent yet another school year in a segregated system.
Award: Second prize for the best stories about inter-ethnic coexistence
Winner: Serbeze Haxhiaj
For: Her article We are All Human’: Kosovo Albanian’s Generosity Sustains Elderly Serb, about a Serb pensioner who was living alone in a remote village in the hills of Kosovo and an Albanian neighbour who reached out across the country’s ethnic divide to help her.
Award: Second prize in Outstanding Contribution to Peace category
Winners: Haris Rovcanin, Albina Sorguc
For: The series of articles which include two investigative pieces “Bosnian Serb Military Police Chiefs Never Charged with Srebrenica Killings”, and “Serb Chetniks’ Links to War Criminals and Extremists Uncovered”, as well as a feature, “28 Years on, Families still Searching for Missing Bosnian Soldiers” and an analysis piece, “BIRN Fact Check: Is the Bosnian Serb Report on the Sarajevo Siege Accurate?”.
Award: First prize
Winner: Valon Fana
For: Investigation “The Car Under the Ownership of Board Chairperson Purchased by Trafiku Urban Enterprise”. The investigation unveiled how the car belonging to the former chair of Trafiku Urban was purchased by the public enterprise through an open tender at a price two times higher than the market price.
Award: Third prize
Winner: Egzon Dahsyla
For: Investigation “€460,000 was not enough for the Municipality of Gjakova to clean a landfill”. The investigation exposed how despite more than €460,000 being spent to clean, treat, and regenerate a legal landfill site in the Municipality of Gjakova, the landfill still exists, and promises were not fulfilled.
Award: First prize
Winner: Egzon Dahsyla
For: Story “Illegal burning continues, the state has failed to treat used tires even though it is recyclable material”
Award: Journalist of the Year 2021
Winner: Kastriot Berisha
For: Reporting on the justice sector which had a great social reaction and which resulted in the launching of criminal investigations, disciplinary proceedings and the suspension of a judge, a decision that was confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Award: Special mention
Winner: Nermina Kuloglija
For: Dedicated work on monitoring public procurement during the coronavirus pandemic.
Award: Investigative Writing on Food Award
Winner: Niall Sargeant for work published in Noteworthy.ie
For: Four-month investigation by BIRN and Noteworthy into the working conditions of the migrant workers that big Irish producers depend on at a harvest time.
Award: First prize
Winner: Anila Hoxha
For: Investigation “PPP Sterilisation Contract Costs Healthcare System Dearly“, which shed light on how doctors in Albania struggle to save patients’ lives while keeping costs under control due to a problematic public-private partnership contract for the supply of surgical instruments that was signed with a health consortium that has political ties.
Award: Award for best reporting of the year
Winner: Jerola Ziaj
For: Investigations on falsification of property documents in the Albanian Riviera
Award: Second prize
Winners: Sasa Dragojlo and Dragana Peco
For: Story “Folic’s New Business with Old Acquaintances” where they brought a detailed breakdown of the work of a high public official, Milutin Folic, who has started a private business in the meantime but is inseparably linked to his previous position.
Award: Third prize
Winner: Natalija Jovanovic
For: Story “Serbia Under-Reported COVID-19 Deaths and Infections, Data Shows”, which revealed the manipulation of the death toll from the coronavirus during 2020.
Award: Third prize
Winner: Dzana Brkanic
For: Story about fake humanitarian organisations deceiving citizens and collecting donations to build wells in African countries.
Award: Second prize
Winners: Antigona Isufi and Blerta Begisholli
For: Story “Urban chaos’ blamed for the disappearance of greenery in Kosovo”
Award: Best cameraman of the year 2021
Winner: Denis Sllovinja
For: Work on filming the story “Pilot since the age of 17” for which he used three technological devices: a drone, GO PRO and interview recording camera.
Award: Third prize
Winners: Anila Hoxha and Esmeralda Keta
For: Story “Albanian Govt Accused of Manipulating Pandemic Aid Data”, a thorough investigation into the support given to poor families in the pandemic and the response of the state administration in this field.
Award: Second prize for a story of exceptional quality
Winners: Geri Emiri
For: Series of investigative stories into the 2019 earthquake in Albania and the shoddy conductions of buildings in the port of Durres, which brought about their collapse and left many victims.
Award: Plaque
Winners: Denis Dzidic
For: Commitment to monitoring and reporting on war crimes cases and topics related to dealing with the past.
Award: Third place for the story of exceptional quality
Winners: Kreshnik Gashi and Adelina Ahmeti
For: A story about illegal gambling in a village of Karaçeva by Kreshnik Gashi and Adelina Ahmeti won third prize as a story of exceptional quality.
Award: First place for the best investigative story
Winners: Jeta Xharra and Visar Prebreza
For: Investigative story, “Unclean energy: A Kosovar who owned the sun”, about a Kosovo businessman who stands behind six companies registered in Malta, reaping millions of euros from the sale of solar energy – in violation of anti-monopoly rules.
Award: Third award for a story of exceptional quality
Winners: Sasa Dragojlo, Vladimir Orskovic and Marko Vesovic
For: Investigative story “Son of Fugitive Ex-President Builds Raspberry Fortune in Serbia“, revealing how Serbia serves as a ‘safe haven’ for the family of the fugitive Montenegrin former politician Svetozar Marovic.
Award: Third prize for investigation on public procurement
Winners: Valon Fana and Vyrtyte Gervalla
For: The story “Municipality led by Gazmend Muhaxheri provides a tender for the family of Ramiz Kelmendi” which revealed how a tender awarded by the Municipality of Peja to supply food and other products to families in need led to a 1,000 euro profit for a business ran by the family of Ramiz Kelmendi, a former MP.
Award: First prize for investigation on public procurement
Winners: Dorentina Kastrati
For: The investigation “The scheme that guaranteed a tender of around 400,000 euros for the Minister of Trade and Industry’s brother” which revealed that a company that was designated 400,000 euros to construct a school by the Municipality of Malisheva, Themeli, was owned by the brother of Vesel Krasniqi, who was then serving as the Minister of Trade and Industry at the time. The municipality is run by NISMA, the same political party that Krasniqi represented in the ministry.
Award: First prize in the online media category by the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia and the US embassy in Belgrade
Winners: Natalija Jovanovic, BIRN Serbia
For: The report ‘Serbia Under-Reported COVID-19 Deaths and Infections, Data Shows’.
Award: First prize for the best investigative story in Montenegro by the Center for Civic Education
Winners: Mustafa Canka
For: The BIRN report: ‘Beneath the Surface: Adriatic Beach Waste Just “Tip of the Iceberg”‘
Award: The best investigative story for 2020
Winners: Rashela Shehu and Fiori Sinoruka
For: The BIRN report: ‘Lack of Scientific Research Leaves Albania in Ruins’
Award: for tackling topical issue of foreign influences on Balkans.
Winners: Mladen Obrenovic, BIRN BiH.
For: an article on the Balkan Cossack army.
Award: Awards for Journalism on Social and Child Protection.
Winners: Behar Mustafa, a journalist at KALLXO.com, and Agon Sinanaj, who contributed an investigative story to BIRN’s English language newspaper Prishtina Insight.
For: Mustafa was awarded for his TV reportage, “Smuggling Children to Italy,” which was broadcast as part of BIRN’s Justice in Kosovo television programme. The story shed light on minors aged 16 to 18 being smuggled from Kosovo to Italy, with the investigation following the whole journey.
Freelance journalist Sinanaj was awarded for his feature story for Prishtina Insight, which looked into the lives of families caring for children with disabilities. The article was also published on BIRN’s KALLXO.com.
Award: Second prize.
Winners: Jelena Veljkovic and Aleksandar Djordjevic, BIRN Serbia.
For: The series of articles about the so-called Krusik affair, which centred on alleged corruption at the state-owned Krusik arms company..
Award: First and third prize.
Winners: Serbeze Haxhiaj, Radio Television of Kosovo and BIRN Hub, and Kreshnik Gashi and Aferdita Fejzullahu, BIRN Kosovo.
For: First award went to Serbeze Haxhiaj for her investigation “Kosovo’s Invisible Children: The Secret Legacy of Wartime Rape.” This story for the first time revealed facts of concrete cases of children born from rape during the independence war in Kosovo.
Kreshnik Gashi and Aferdita Fejzullahu of BIRN Kosovo were awarded third place for their story, “Network of AAK family companies, concrete the highway Prishtina-Gjilan.”
Award: For outstanding commitment to the protection, respect and promotion of human rights.
Winner: Natalija Jovanovic, BIRN Serbia.
For: Investigative story “Serbia Under-Reported COVID-19 Deaths and Infections, Data Shows“.
Award: Integrity Award.
Winner: BIRN Albania.
For: Enabling high quality investigative journalism, full coverage and neutrality of current events in the country related to the implementation of the rule of law, and for contribution to the further development of democracy in Albania.
Award: First prize.
Winner: Semir Mujkic, BIRN BiH.
For: A series of articles on Russian influence in the country presenting an original and comprehensive overview of pro-Russian actors, associations and groups and their local political supporters.
Award: Category of nominations by journalists.
Winner: Emina Dizdarevic, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For: Three articles on the challenges facing marginalised groups in Bosnian society.
Award: “Internet Work” category for contribution to the promotion and protection of children’s rights.
Winner: Azra Husaric, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For: article titled “Parents Bear Biggest Burden of Online Classes for Children with Developmental Difficulties”
Award: 2020 Prize for Economic Journalism in Kosovo.
Winner: Visar Prebreza and Jeta Xharra, BIRN Kosovo
For: Investigation: “Unclean Energy: The Kosovar who would Own the Sun.”
Award: CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism..
Winner: Natalija Jovanovic, BIRN Serbia, and Esmeralda Keta, contributor to BIRN Albania’s Reporter.al and to BIRN’s regional publication Balkan Insight..
For: Investigative stories covering issues related to the coronavirus crisis.
Award: First place.
Winner: Klodiana Lala, BIRN Albania contributor.
For: Investigative story “Wiretaps Reveal the Role of Organised Crime in Vote Buying.”
Award: Nino Catic Journalism Award.
Winner: Denis Dzidic, director of BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For: long-term reporting about the Srebrenica genocide and for contributing to preserving the truth about the July 1995 mass killings.
Award: Special Award for 2020.
Winner: BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For: for its reporting on war crimes trials, transitional justice issues and the problems faced by victims of the 1990s conflict.
Award: the best investigative journalism story.
Winner: BIRN Serbia journalists Jelena Veljkovic and Aleksandar Djordjevic
For: for a about the father of the Serbian interior minister’s involvement in arms trading.
Award: Press Freedom Award – A Signal for Europe.
Winner: BIRN Network.
For: its courageous investigative journalism in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and for its dedication to the fight for human rights, democracy and justice for the victims of war crimes.
Award: award for best investigative story of the year 2019.
Winner: BIRN Macedonia.
For: the story ‘Alive and Well: The Lucrative Business Club around REK Bitola‘ by journalist Vlado Apostolov.
Award: A Feminist Achievement Award for 2019.
Winner: Sofija Torodovic, BIRN Hub.
For: The award for informing the public about the case of Albanian neighbour who was targeted by local nationalists. BeFem gives the award to honour significant feminist initiatives, as well as collectives and individuals who show how to make change through collective action and solidarity.
Award: best written work of the year.
Winner: Serbeze Haxhiaj, BIRN Hub’s programme Balkan Transitional Justice.
For: article Kosovo’s Invisible Children: The Secret Legacy of Wartime Rape.
Award: First prize.
Winner: Esmeralda Keta and Elisa Gjerani.
For: investigative article Premature Baby Deaths Rise in Albania’s Cash-starved Hospitals created through BIRN Albania’s call for investigative grants.
Award: Third prize.
Winner: Ola Mitre.
For: For investigative article The Hidden Costs of Free Cardio Surgeries in Private Hospitals created through BIRN Albania’s call for investigative grants.
Award: Special plaque.
Winner: BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For: continuous professional reporting over many years on the most sensitive issues, such as war crime trials at the state court and the rights of marginalised groups.
Award: Environmental awards in Kosovo.
Winner: Koha Ditore journalist Besnik Krasniq; RTK journalist Edona Musa; Drenushe Ramadani, a journalist from BIRN Kosovo’s site Kallxo.com.
For: three journalistic pieces all supported by BIRN.
Award: Third prize.
Winner: Milos Stanic, an alumnus of BIRN’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme, BIRN Hub.
For: investigative article Toxic Taps: Arsenic in Water Stirs Cancer Fears
Award: Young Professional Journalists category
Winner: Arlis Alikaj, an alumnus of BIRN’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme, BIRN Hub
For: investigative article Chainsaw Gangs: The Plunder of Albania’s Ancient Forests
Award: Second prize
Winner: Serbeze Haxhiaj, BIRN Hub
For: investigative article Kosovo’s Political Murders: Unpunished, Not Forgotten
Award: Fatos Baxhaku Prize as best documentary
Winner: Elton Baxhaku, BIRN Albania
For: Documentary ‘Free Flow’
Award: Second prize
Winner: Semir Mujkic, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina
For: Corruption in Public Procurements
Award: For raising awareness about the poor condition of cultural heritage in the country
Winner: Goce Trpkovski, BIRN Macedonia
For: North Macedonia Leaves Priceless Heritage at Risk
Award: For journalistic courage and special achievements in research and analytical journalism
Winner: Slobodan Georgiev, BIRN Serbia and Tatjana Lazarevic, editor-in-chief of the KoSSev website from Mitrovica in Kovoso
For: Overall work
Award: the White Dove award.
Winner: BIRN Albania.
For: for the civil courage, professionalism and objectivity shown with investigative reports with a wide public impact.
Award: Free Speech Award.
Winner: Klodiana Lala, a journalist for Albania’s News 24.
For: a story she produced using a BIRN reporting grant.
Award: the best investigative journalism story.
Winner: Jelena Veljkovic, BIRN Serbia.
For: a series of research articles (1), (2),(3), (4), (5) about illegal construction work on Mount Golija.
Award: Best multimedia investigation into corruption.
Winner: Semir Mujkic, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For: Investigation into Bosnian goal supplier that used forged safety documents.
Award: best Serbian film.
Winners: Dragan Gmizic, BIRN Serbia, Al Jazeera Balkans and WWF Adria, co-producers.
For: The Dark Shadow of Green Energy.
Award: best story using freedom of information requests in 2018.
Winner: Sanja Rasovic, BIRN Hub, freelance journalist.
For: Local Chiefs’ Financial Abuses Blight Montenegrin Costal Town
Award: best reporting on the rights of children in Kosovo.
Winner: BIRN Kosovo.
For: three journalistic pieces.
Award: Second prize.
Winner: BIRN Macedonia.
For: database on foreign investments announced by the Macedonian government from 2007 to 2016.
Award: Audience’s award.
Winners: Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina and BIRN Kosovo.
For: The documentary, Kosovo… Nazdravlje! Gëzuar!
Award: Special recognition, certificate of excellence.
Winners: BIRN Hub and BIRN Kosovo.
For: The investigation, Making a Killing.
Award: Kosovo Journalism Poverty Prize.
Winner: Serbeze Haxhiaj, BIRN Hub.
For: The Enduring Agony of Wartime Rape in Kosovo
Award: Best story on education.
Winner: Doruntia Baliu, BIRN Kosovo.
For: The Silence on Falsifying Grades
Award: Best article.
Winners: BIRN Hub and BIRN Kosovo.
For: The Pentagon’s $2.2 Billion Soviet Arms Pipeline Flooding Syria
Award: Best article by a young investigative journalist.
Winner: Elvis Nabolli, BIRN Hub, a 2016 fellow of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.
For: An Albanian War on Drugs.
Award: First prize.
Winner: Aleksandar Dimitrievski, BIRN Macedonia.
For: Database on agricultural subsidies in Macedonia.
Award: Second prize.
Winner: Dragan Gmizic, BIRN Serbia.
For: The documentary, Flatland without Birds?
Award: best investigations in print media.
Winner: Jelena Veljkovic, BIRN Serbia.
For: The Secret of Vucic’s Tavern
And;
Award: best investigation in online media.
Winner: BIRN Hub and BIRN Kosovo.
For: Making a Killing, the 1.2 billion euro arms pipelines to the Middle East.
Award: Second prize.
Winners: Jeta Xharra, BIRN Kosovo, and Faik Ispahiu, Internews Kosovo.
For: The Organised Tax Fraud.
Award: ‘Yasar Erebara’ award [annual].
Winner: Vlado Apostolov, BIRN Macedonia.
For: Three investigative articles on properties linked to the former chair of the Council in the Skopje Municipality of Centre.
Award: Best investigative reporting.
Winner: BIRN Macedonia team.
For: Skopje 2014 Uncovered.
Award: First prize.
Winner: Aleksandar Djordjevic, BIRN Serbia.
For: Draining the Mine and the Budget.
And;
Award: Third prize.
Winner: BIRN Hub and BIRN Kosovo investigative team.
For: Veselinovic-linked Consortium Bags 75m Dollar Contract in Secret Deal.
Award: Best investigative story in print media.
Winner: Aleksandar Djordjevic, BIRN Serbia.
For: article on Belgrade Business School which, under pressure from officials, unlawfully lent 7 million euros to indebted companies that were unlikely to repay the money.
Award: Best short documentary.
Winner: Marija Ristic, BIRN Hub.
For: The Unidentified.
Award: First prize.
Winner: Leonard Bakillari, BIRN Albania.
For: Albanian Judges’ Wealth Escapes Scrutiny.
Award: First prize.
Winner: Boris Georgievski, BIRN Macedonia.
For: a series of investigations, “Dossier Telecom“.
Award: Second prize.
For: the database Skopje 2014 Uncovered.
Award: Second prize.
Winner: Parim Olluri, BIRN Kosovo.
For: The friend of Lushtaku benefits from Vala.
Award: best Serbian film
Winner: author Dragan Gmizic, BIRN Serbia.
For: The documentary, Flatland without Birds?
Award: Best anti-corruption story on TV.
Winner: Naim Krasniqi, BIRN Kosovo.
For: The Wrong Lunch.
Award: Best investigations on corruption and organised crime.
Winner: Lindita Cela, BIRN Albania.
For: overall work.
Award: Jug Grizelj prize for contribution to investigative work.
Winner: BIRN Serbia team.
For: overall work.
Award: First prize.
Winners: Aleksandra Bogdani and Flamur Vezaj, BIRN Albania.
For: three articles on the recruitment of Albanians to fight for radical Islamists in Syria.
And;
Award: Third prize.
Winner: Besar Likmeta, BIRN Albania.
For: Lobby Firm Behind Campaign to Smear Albanian Socialist.
Award: Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism, professional journalists’ category.
Winner: Aleksandra Bogdani, BIRN Albania.
For: Overall work.
Award: Vangjush Gambeta award.
Winner: Amire Qamili, BIRN Kosovo.
For: Isa Mustafa’s Sons Win Tenders of the Prime Minister Office.
Award: Best Journalist of 2015.
Winner: Behar Mustafa, BIRN Kosovo.
And;
Award: Best Cameraperson of 2015.
Winner: Naser Fejza, BIRN Kosovo.
Award: Second prize.
Winners: Jeta Xharra, BIRN Kosovo and kallxo.com team.
For: Scandals of Doctors with Stents
Awards: ‘Best Culture Story’, ‘Best Reportage’ and ‘Best Filming’
Winners: BIRN Kosovo team.
Independent Association of Serbian Journalist and US embassy
Award: Best investigative journalism in the print media.
Winner: Slobodan Georgiev, BIRN Serbia.
For: Discovering the Secret of the Minister’s safe’, on the Etihad/ Airserbia contract.
Award: Best investigative journalism in print media.
Winners: Slobodan Georgiev and Aleksandar Djordjevic, BIRN Serbia.
For: Marketing Stars in the Political Field.
Award: Best Cultural Article.
Winner: Kaltrina Rexhepi, BIRN Kosovo.
For: Irregular Business Burden to Inheritance.
Award: Best online investigative journalism about poverty.
Winner: Nektar Zogjani and Tinka Kurti, BIRN Kosovo.
For: Misery of the Reconciliation Field Camp,’ on the harsh life of the inhabitants of the Pajtimi neighbourhood on the outskirts of Pristina.
Award: Best online anti-corruption story.
Winners: Parim Olluri and Petrit Collaku, BIRN Kosovo.
For: Negotiated Million
And;
Award: Best story in TV category.
Winner: Kreshnik Gashi, BIRN Kosovo.
For: Besimi does not go to Jail.
Award: Best TV journalism, first prize.
Winner: Jeta Xharra, director of BIRN Kosovo.
For: Programme on the Kosovo film director Blerta Zeqiri.
Award: Best investigative journalism in the online media.
Winner: Slobodan Georgiev, BIRN Serbia, and CINS Serbia team.
For: To BusPlus Through the Holes in The System, on the payment system on public transport in Belgrade.
Award: Best report on poverty, first prize.
Winner: Kaltrina Rexhepi, BIRN Kosovo.
For: Collective Apartments in Magura Have No Access to Water.
Awards: Three investigative journalism awards, including ‘Best Journalist of 2012’.
Winners: BIRN Kosovo’s ‘Jeta ne Kosove‘ team.
Award: honours excellence in reporting on the European Union in the English-speaking media.
Winner: Sorana Stanescu, BIRN Hub, an alumna from the 2012 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme.
For: Cheap, and Far from Free: the Migrants Building Britain.
Award: Best educational reporting, third prize.
Winner: Bardh Shkreli, BIRN Kosovo.
For: University of Pristina with no Inventions
Award: Dr Erhard Busek Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe.
Winner: Jeta Xharra, BIRN Kosovo director.
For: Overall work.
Award: Best anti-corruption journalism.
Winners: BIRN Kosovo investigative team.
For: Overall work.
Award: Outstanding contribution to journalism in Bosnia.
Winner: Eldin Hadzovic, BIRN Hub, an alumnus of BIRN’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.
For: Abandoned Twice: Bosnia’s Orphans Left in the Lurch.
Award: anti-corruption work in the category of television and online journalism, first prize.
Winner: BIRN Kosovo investigative team.
For: Investigation into misuse of government tenders for roads in Kosovo and into allegations of corruption in the Kosovo’s Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Award: Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism.
Winner: Besar Likmeta, BIRN Albania Editor.
For: Overall work.
Award: Best story in Kosovo for 2006.
Winner: Krenar Gashi and BIRN Kosovo’s investigative team.
For: Ex-Policemen Run Kosovo Passport Scam.
Awards: Three different diplomas and awards.
Winner: BIRN Romania.
For: fair reporting on ethnic issues.
Award: Honorary mentions in a journalism contest.
Winner: BIRN Romania contributors.
For: Fair reporting on Roma issues.
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