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In Eurasia, New Media’s Arrival Upsets Old Order July 25, 2013 IREX’s latest Europe & Eurasia Media Sustainability Index (MSI) finds that new media sources are rapidly replacing traditional outlets as the preferred source of news. A decade after online media began sapping the advertising revenue of traditional outlets in the West, these same trends are now washing across the region to the east, undermining business models as they go.	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.	Kosovo National Assembly Broadcast Live by Serb TV 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.
Scholars Tackle Transnational Crime and Corruption Policy June 26, 2012 by Julia Hon Human trafficking, drug trade, police reform, and corporate graft were among the diverse topics debated and discussed by ten up-and-coming scholars at the 2012 IREX/WWC Regional Policy Symposium, "Transnational Crime and Corruption in Eastern Europe and Eurasia." Transnational criminal networks, and the domestic corruption that feeds them, represent one of the major foreign policy challenges facing the United States today.	Increasing Political Control of the Media Seen in Europe and Eurasia April 5, 2012 The 2012 edition of IREX’s Media Sustainability Index (MSI) for Europe and Eurasia measures the struggles and triumphs of the media sector in 21 transitioning countries from Croatia to Kazakhstan. Evidence from local media experts shows overall stability in the media sector. Increasing use of digital and social media gives hope for expanding freedom of expression. However, reported backsliding in several countries, partly due to the increased political control of media, concerns the experts.
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.	A Right to Equal Healthcare- The Case of Romani Women in Macedonia February 23, 2011 An hour and a half scenic drive through the mountains from Skopje, Macedonia, is situated beautiful Prilep, a town of about 65,000 people. I travelled there to interview Nesime Salioska, the founder of the NGO ‘Roma SOS...’ Her vision and that of Roma SOS “is to create opportunities for the Romani community to become equal citizens with equal rights and opportunities in society”.