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Property scam Eastern European style revealed

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:39:04 +0100

BRUSSELS – 10 / 8 / 2010 - Rich Estonians who invested in the real estate of the Black Sea seaside resort in Varna, Bulgaria, with hopes of fat profits, were scammed by the local Chechen criminal gang, according to story supported by Journalismfund.eu.

Money to stories all over Europe

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:34:48 +0100

BRUSSELS - 5 / 7 / 2010 – Almost € 21.000 have been distributed to five teams of journalists. This is the 3^rd round of research grants for cross-border and European research stories. Interest keeps growing.

Not like an old-fashioned journalist

Sun, 30 May 2010 14:23:11 +0100

BRUSSELS – 30 / 5 / 2010 – Old and new journalist thinking clash in English crowd-sourcing project. In Birmingham journalists and non-journalists cooperate and the ongoing research is visible before publication. Similar thoughts are surfacing among it-programmers dealing with tasks that usually were taken care of by journalists. Time to take up an inspiring challenge.

Follow the money (to a European debate)

Wed, 05 May 2010 15:15:14 +0100

BRUSSELS – 5 / 5 / 2010 – One way of achieving a European public sphere could be through pooling journalistic research power and publishing to national audiences by language. One example is the common effort on analysing the latest data of the EU farmsubsidy beneficiaries.