Albanian Media Institute - Instituti Shqiptar i Medias

May , 2012: Movie projection - two days (in cooperation with Frontline)
May 14 - 15 , 2012: Reporting LGBT issues - course (in cooperation with PINK Embassy)
May , 2012: Access to information - course (in cooperation with CRD)
May , 2012: Transparency of media funding - Roundtable (in cooperation with BTD)
May , 2012: Human Rights for journalist - course (in cooperation with CRD)

- Media independence versus media clientelism: challenges of soft censorship and self-censorship
- Media talks and documentary screenings on freedom of expression and journalism
- Seminar on science reporting
- Improving access to information for media and citizens
- Journalism and human rights weeks
- Albanian media: between history and reality...more

IREX published its 2012 Media Sustainability Report and according to this report, Albania’s MSI scores improved in every objective last year, but three out of the five objectives slipped in 2012. The report stated that this trend reflected the erosion of prospects for media sustainability in Albania. The report on Albania stated that a growing number of media outlets have succumbed to dependence on political parties, mainly the ruling party and now independent media and journalists are a rare species, near extinction. The panelists in the report expressed their criticism for the practice and conduct of the regulatory authority and for the lack of independent and public-oriented reporting of the public broadcaster. They identified self-censorship among journalists as a widespread problem, obstructing media independence. They also noted that transparency of media ownership and funding remains a problem, along with the lack of transparency in media advertising and the separation of business from content.

Starting from October 2008, Foreign Policy magazine is also published in Albanian. This is an initiative of the Albanian Media Institute, Foreign Policy Club, and Forum 2015. Some of the most important articles published in the March-April 2012 issue are: "After America" by Zbigniew Bzezinski, "The Myth of Europe", by Gareth Harding, "Energy Independence: A Short History", by Charles Homans, "The Things They Carried: The Russian Oligarch" by Julia Ioffe.