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IREX Commemorates 15 Years of Building Independent Media in Serbia December 3, 2012 IREX and USAID commemorated the close of the Serbian Media Assistance Program, marking 15 years of United States media support in Serbia, with a conference in Belgrade attended by representatives of the media, the American and Serbian governments, and international institutions and donors.	Livestream Event: Building Independent Media in Serbia - Fifteen Years Later October 31, 2012 This week IREX and USAID will hold a closeout conference for the Serbia Media Assistance Program in Belgrade. Watch the livestream here Thursday, November 1 from 4:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST and Friday, November 2 from 4:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST. Topics covered will include contemporary media law, media strategy and its implementation, media freedom, investigative journalism, social media for journalists, media market and trends, media literacy, and preconditions and critical issues for media development in Serbia.
From Trainee to Trainer: A Serbian Journalist Passes Knowledge to a New Generation December 22, 2011 by Djordje Nikolic Ten years ago, Vesna Dobrosavljevic was a budding Serbian radio journalist enrolled in the IREX Summer School for radio production in Kotor, Montenegro. Today, she is the information and business website editor for B92 Radio (Serbia’s leading independent news outlet) and more importantly, a qualified trainer herself lending expertise to the next generation of Serbian journalists.	International Anti-Corruption Day: Investigative Journalists Use Technology to Combat Corruption December 9, 2011 by Erin Murrock I recently witnessed/observed first-hand the challenges facing media reform in Serbia, and indeed, in most of the countries where IREX works.
Local Online Media in Serbia Gains an Audience and Trust September 2, 2011 by Djordje Nikolic In a little over a year, Southern News, a start up regional news website from South Serbia supported by IREX, gained the trust of its readers, respect from its journalism colleagues, and 80,000 unique visitors a month.	Keeping an Eye on Public Finances - Investigative Journalism in Serbia December 7, 2010 by Djordje Nikolic In Belgrade, Serbia local journalists practice their journalism skills by investigating the use of public finances in municipalities around the country.
IREX Partner Becomes Number One Local Station July 20, 2010 by Djordje Nikolic and Andrea Lemieux With IREX’s help, one TV station has aimed to fill that information gap and has succeeded by more than doubling its ratings, making it the highest rated local station in the area.	Profile of Photo Contest Winner- Aleksandar's Journalism Journey May 12, 2010 by Jason Vuong Do Aleksandar Stojkovic and his HD flip cam are attached at the hip. “(The flip cam) I got from IREX is always with me. Few days ago I was an eyewitness of some arrest which I recorded with my new cam and that record was presented on our TV,” said Aleksandar.
Aleksandar Stojkovic Wins IREX’s First Photo Contest on Facebook! April 1, 2010 by Daniel Crowder Congratulations to Aleksandar Stojkovic for his winning photo of his colleague Srdjan Ilic on an improvised anchor chair during an in-house training IREX arranged for their television station, TV 017 in Vranje (through the Serbia Media Assistance Program).	Bringing Serbian Film to Radio March 10, 2010 by Djordje Nikolic It’s not easy to broadcast a film festival over radio airwaves, but that’s just what IREX partner City Radio did for the open-air film festival in Nis, Serbia. City Radio, with the help of IREX Serbia, provided a seven-hour remote broadcast of the festival’s opening ceremony and first day, including live interviews with actors and other participants by using 3G mobile systems to broadcast the event.