About Us
The Balkan Alliance for Local Media is a regional network of small, independent, community, and minority media from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia.
We are part of the same landscape described in the Call for Change—local outlets working under pressure, often with limited means, but with a strong sense of responsibility toward the people and places we serve. Our collaboration is grounded in ethics, transparency, and solidarity, and in a shared commitment to journalism that protects the public interest, strengthens communities, and helps people across the region hear and understand one another again.
Call for Change
Small, independent, local, community, and minority media in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia face the same reality: political pressure, unstable funding, and donor systems that often fail to reflect what local journalism truly needs. These outlets are often the last places where people from divided communities still hear one another. They report from overlooked towns and villages with limited resources and deep commitment to public service.
Stories
A Well-Written Project, a Bad Story
Sometimes I feel that donors reward the skill of writing applications more than the actual importance of the topics.
Travel and Work — But Don’t Eat
We carried out a project about life in remote parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina — field stories, conversations with people living by rivers, in the mountains, in villages with no signal or asphalt. The project was well desig…
Three Offers for a USB Cable
It was last year, in the middle of a project meant to help small local media outlets develop digital formats. The project was worth only a few thousand euros, but the amount of paperwork and rules was as if we were buildin…