Algirdas Lipstas joined the Media Program (now the Program on Independent Journalism) as project manager in charge primarily of support to journalism training projects. This included work with mid-career journalism training institutions in Open Society’s “traditional region,” and building of a network of journalists’ training and media research/advocacy centers in South East Europe. In 2010 he started to develop program’s portfolio of support to investigative journalism, which is now his primary programmatic responsibility.