PRISTINA, 17.04.2018 – Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) continued its second phase of the project that aims to increase cooperation between journalists of all communities in Kosovo, in particular between Albanian and Serbian journalists.
The roundtable that was held in Gracanica gathered journalists to discuss about the increase of cooperation level as well as to identify the challenges they face during their work.
Participants at this table were journalists from different national and local media. Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Association of Journalists of Serbia, Kosovo’s branch were present too.
Petrit Collaku from the Association of Journalists of Kosovo stressed that the cooperation between journalists is increasing every day more and more.
“The good thing is that we started pretty much to notice this, without a doubt. There were also joint attempts to aim for a better job for journalists in the region,” said Collaku.
He added that still there are some barriers that journalists face appealing to colleagues from northern part of Kosovo to visit more Pristina in order to get to know better political and social problems in country.
“The problems still exist in Mitrovica. Journalists can cooperate and this is the best way to tackle all issues of concern. United we can positively impact in all cases,” Collaku said.
Fatmire Terdevci from the EU office in Kosovo said that they are satisfied with success of the project so far
“As per the project, we are happy because there was success with the first part of the project in the discussion with journalists from all communities. The project together with BIRN will continue to strengthen further the cooperation among journalists,” said Terdevci.
This initiative is a continuation of a project implemented last years through which Albanian, Serbian and Bosnian journalists have written joint articles about social themes that Kosovo’s inhabitants are facing.
The project is supported by the European Union office in Kosovo.