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September 14, 2012
 TV Puls, a local Serb language TV station in Kosovo supported by USAID and IREX, went live last week with coverage of the Kosovo National Assembly. The broadcasts signaled an important technical and editorial breakthrough for Serbian language media in Kosovo and showed their increasing willingness to engage with the institutions of Kosovo government. |
August 7, 2012
 Despite Kosovo's 45 percent unemployment rate, young minority journalists like Sonja MIlojevic and Sanja Sovrlic are building successful careers and providing vital links between scattered and isolated communities. Like many others in the country's majority Albanian and minority Serb communities, they faced challenges in finding employment and pursuing their careers. |
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October 26, 2011
 "In the house we have two televisions. On one them the children watch cartoons, while on my TV in the kitchen I watch mainly local news. I do watch RTS, Prva TV and B92, but on these TV stations there are fewer reports from Kosovo. If I want to find out about the electricity supply, water, or heating I get the information from TV Most, while on TV Herc I like debates and news from southern Kosovo.” Maja Guberinic, Mitrovica |
August 10, 2011
 Vojislav Stojanovic says the harvest in central Kosovo should be good this year. As he stands in his wheat field in Caglavica with a reporter from the new “Agrar” TV show, he rubs the grains between his fingers and tastes them, as generations of farmers have done before him, to judge when they should begin harvesting. “Its good, full of flavor,” he says. “But it is still damp, maybe another five or six days.” |
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March 16, 2011
 For the first time in Kosovo, a Bosniak and Serb radio stations share programming across their etnic communities. On March 10, 2011 the Bosniak radio station Omega 3, based in the southern city of Prizren, established direct and live links with KOSMA, the Kosovo Serb network of five radio stations. |
December 15, 2010
 Local language radio and TV play an important role in keeping minority communities informed and in touch with each other. |
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September 8, 2010
 With assistance from IREX and funding from the Kosovo Minority Media Fund, the Kosova Association of Blind and Partially Sighted launched the first ever Albanian language braille magazine. |
April 26, 2010
 Tensions between ethnic group and nationalities in the Balkans existed long before the conflict in the 1990s; since then, the relationship between Serbs and Kosovars has not markedly abated. |
