Joti Heir is a Canadian journalist experienced in writing for newspaper and reporting for live radio and television. She has produced and reported for CTV, CBC and Black Press among others.

Arian Lumezi is a journalist based in Prishtina, Kosovo. He has reported on various issues related to politics, rule of law and people facing challenges in their everyday lives.

Arian has a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication and Journalism and a Master's in International Journalism from Read moreCardiff University through a Chevening Scholarship provided by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom.

Una Hajdari is a freelance journalist based in Rome, Italy.

Adem Sylejmani is a Fixer/PA based in Prishtina, .

I am an experienced independent journalist based in North Macedonia. I can cover Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania and Bulgaria. I am always ready to travel at short notice. 

I provide written materials as well as and multimedia reports and documentaries.  I cover the entire Read moregamut of subjects from food and entertainment to crime, politics, migrants and terrorism.

Visar Prebreza is a journalist.

Jeta Xharra is Director of Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Kosovo, as well as a leading anchor and editor of “Life in Kosovo”, broadcasted in prime-time in Kosovar public TV, the only Kosovo program profiled in New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/world/europe/30iht-letter30.Read morehtml?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The program has pushed the boundaries of debate, opening taboo subjects that Kosovars have never before discussed and has gone to being from the most criticised to the most watched current affairs program in Kosovo.

She got into journalism working as a fixer/local producer for BBC News and Channel 4 in 1998 and later became the manager of the BBC Kosovo Bureau. In 1999, she worked for BBC News in Albania and Macedonia and in 2003 she opened the office for Institute for War and Peace Reporting in Kosovo. 

She completed an MA in War Studies at King's College London (2000), and gained a distinction for an MA in Screenwriting from the London College of Printing (2002). She wrote a play "Warless" which was presented as a reading in London's Royal Court theatre during the Young Writer's Festival in 2004.

Xharra has published a front-page article in the Independent and written for the Economist, Sunday Telegraph and Jane's Intelligence Review. While in the UK, Xharra worked for the Foreign News Planning Desk at the BBC World Service, Institute for War and Peace Reporting and in 2005 she became one of the founders of Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. 

BIRN Kosovo has about 70 staff all over Kosovo that are responsible for producing English publications such as Balkan Insight and Prishtina Insight, as well as products in local languages such as "Justice in Kosovo", "Life in Kosovo newspaper" and Court Monitoring Project. In 2012 the South East Europe Media Organisation, SEEMO, named Jeta Xharra as winner of the 2012 Dr Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe.

Raymond Lidal is a journalist—TV, radio and print.

Labinot Leposhtica is a media legal advisor, currently the head of the legal office at KALLXO.com, a joint award-winning media outlet in Kosovo co-produced by BIRN Kosovo and Internews Kosova.
Mr Leposhtica is a lawyer by profession with over seven years of experience in the media sector, Read moreincluding legal editing, working on building rules and regulations improving labour rights of journalists and engaging with public institutions to improve the situation of the media sector in Kosovo.
Mr Leposhtica is a members of the Press Council of Kosova while he has also engaged in providing feedback and suggesting amendments to labour legislation in Kosovo.
He has also represented journalists who were sued for defamation, while also providing trainings for local and central level journalists on how to report legally safe and defend themselves against defamation, privacy and slander lawsuits.

A young, ambitious journalist who is always looking for the ‘why’. With empathy for human interest and huge interest in the subject’s economy, foreign affairs and politics. 

Studied journalism at the Utrecht School of Journalism, with an honours programme at the Medie- og Journalisthøjskole in Read moreAarhus and a minor at the Journalism Faculty of the Lomonosov State University in Moscow. Previously wrote for Buisness Insider, Algemeen Dagblad (AD) and other publications. 

Always ready to travel and find the one story for any publication.