Balkan Insight is the flagship English-language website of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). They offer news, analysis, investigations, features, profiles, and interviews on key issues in Southern and Eastern Europe. They welcome proposals for commentary and opinion pieces for their Reporting Democracy, a cross-border journalistic platform dedicated to exploring where democracy is headed across large parts of Europe. According to their pitch guide, the standard rate for a commentary piece written by experts at think tanks, research institutes, non-governmental organisations, academic institutions or government is 100 euros. For journalists, they state that they pay a competitive rate for feature stories, news analysis, interviews, videos and investigations on issues affecting the state of democracy in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.