BIRN Launches New Investigative Resource Desk Platform

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) launched a cross-border journalism platform on Thursday with the aim of helping journalists all over the globe by providing them with knowledge and assistance necessary in today's world.

BIRN Investigative Resource Desk (BIRD) is an innovative interactive platform created for professional and citizen journalists who want to keep up-to-date with the fast-changing world of technology without sacrificing their ethics or the standards of professional journalism.

In times of media deterioration, and with new challenges in the digital sphere that are shaping the world, journalism's ecosystem is changing fast, and in unpredictable ways. The role of journalists across the world has never been more complex. 

BIRD is BIRN's latest move to strengthen journalism in Southeast Europe and beyond. For months, we have worked together with a team of dedicated journalists, editors and developers to create a platform that is easy to use and provides all relevant information in one place.

As we believe that information is power, our vision was to use the potential of the BIRN network and its knowledge base to create something that can be used widely, for free.

Through BIRD, we wanted to offer journalists an easy way to learn and stay on track with the latest developments in the digital sphere. That way, BIRD users will be able to get all the latest updates on the state of digital freedoms, opportunities within the journalism network and beyond, and news covering these topics.

The platform provides investigative journalists with various types of assistance and a set of tools and resources related, but not limited, to freedom of information, data access and protection, cyber-security and open-source...