Sokol Ferizi from Pristina, Kosovo, is a young journalist working for the Lajm daily newspaper and as moderator of the leading internet debate list in Kosovo, Prishtina Team
Polina Slavcheva from Sofia, Bulgaria, has worked for the Sofia Echo, Bulgaria’s English-language weekly and lifestyle magazine Edno, and done internships with political weekly Capital and Bulgarian national television
Nikoleta Popkostadinova from Sofia, Bulgaria, is a freelance journalist specializing in social affairs. She has worked as a reporter for the Bulgarian weekly Capital and Transitions Online, and as an editor for the monthly magazine Vice
Nenad Radicevic from Belgrade, Serbia, works for the national daily, Politika, covering foreign politics. He previously worked for the Ekspres daily and Reporter weekly, mainly covering daily politics and military reform
Milorad Ivanovic from Belgrade, Serbia, is the deputy editor in chief of national daily Blic, for which he previously served as foreign affairs editor
Eleonora Veninova from Skopje, Macedonia, is a journalist for Sitel TV, a national channel. Additionally, she works for Cre8ive 8 Production, producing documentaries and short promotional clips for the British Council
Davor Konjikusic is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Zagreb, Croatia, working for a range of media in Croatia and Serbia
Bojana Stanisic from Podgorica, Montenegro, is editor and journalist for TV Vijesti and founder of web-portal Evropski Reporter
Bogdan Asaftei from Bucharest is a Romanian journalist and editor specialising in economy. Currently, he is the coordinating editor of the economic department of HotNews.ro, as well as a correspondent for Austrian business daily WirtschaftsBlatt
Altin Raxhimi from Tirana, Albania, is an experienced journalist currently working freelance from Albania for a host of English-language publications, including BIRN, www.reportingproject.net, Inter-Press Service and The Chicago Tribune
The Balkans features a proliferation of borders and barriers to movement of people, goods, capital, services, information and ideas, both among the countries that make it up and vis-à-vis the EU.