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€ 10.000 per project on average

 18 / JANUARY / 2012 - 37 journalists from 19 countries sent applications in the January 2012 round of applications at Journalismfund.eu. The 16 applications in sum need € 160.423 for their research, an average of €10.000 per project. 
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324.000 Euro for European Journalism

12 / DECEMBER / 2011 - The Open Society Foundation has granted € 324.000 to Journalismfund.eu and its sister projects under the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund for the coming two years.
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farmsubsidy.org under the wings of journalismfund.eu

From 12 December 2011, day to day responsibility for the core activities of the farmsubsidy.org project will transfer from EU Transparency, based in the UK, to the European Fund for Investigative Journalism, a project of the Pascal Decroos Fund, a foundation based in Belgium. The project will benefit from financial support from the Open Society Foundation worth €78,000 over two years.
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Tomorrow’s journalist is an emancipated journalist

BRUSSELS - 6 / 10 / 2010 - Citizens are freeing themselves from political parties and party-newspapers, instead they go looking for news themselves. At the same time media turn from playing a role in society to focus on profit. In such an environment journalists must free themselves from the media and become entrepreneurial. They must emancipate themselves, argues Ides Debruyne.
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Stories

Death threats against Journalismfund.eu supported team

2 / DECEMBER / 2011 Slovenian Journalists Blaz Zgaga and Matej Surc received death threats after having reported about illegal arms trade during the Balkan wars. The research was based upon 6000 pages of documents received through a freedom of information request under Slovenian law and supported with a research grant from Journalismfund.eu.'
 

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About the European Fund for Investigative Journalism

The aim of the European Fund for Investigative Journalism is to promote quality journalism in Europe by giving journalists the chance to carry out journalistic research projects. The Fund - Journalismfund.eu - is firmly rooted in the investigative journalism community. It's board consists of representatives from organisations furthering research journalism and of estimated individuals. Journalismfund.eu raises and redistributes funds according to the principles of full transparency and absolute editorial independence. The fund is a project of the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fond, but will after an inception phase be turned into an independent non-profit entity.
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Next call for applications

JANUARY 2012 -  The next deadline for applications is not fixed yet. If you want to be alerted about the next round, please sign up for our newsletter. 

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Upcoming conferences

DECEMBER 2011 - Investigative journalism associations throughout Europe offer their members annual conferences aswell as often also gatherings in between. Please find here a selection of upcoming events.
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