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Did you miss the Dataharvest Festival? Have a look here

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100

14 / MAY / 2012 - From the 6th till the 8th of May 2012 the European Data Harvest Conference brought together the cream of European data journalism in Brussels. If you missed it this time, read the below report. And make sure to join next year from the 9th to the 11th of May 2013.

Fresh mapping of non-profit Investigative Journalism in Europe

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

26 / MARCH / 2012 - For all the progress investigative journalism in Europe has made in the past decade, the amount of academic research on the topic has remained discomfortingly small. One of the first to turn the tide is Florentine Guia Baggi, who explored the matter and documented it in her thesis Non-profit Investigative Journalism in Europe: Motives, Organisations and Practices.

Programme Data Harvest Conference online

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:30:42 +0100

6 / APRIL / 2012 - The programme for the Data Harvest Conference that will be taking place in Brussels from May 6th-8th 2012 is online. Read it here.

5th round of grants are hard work

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:08:29 +0100

8th / FEBRUARY / 2012 - The 5^th round of distributing research grants to journalists in Europe has turned out to be hard work. 16 journalists applied, and 14 of them managed to fulfil the criteria, which only a few of them fulfilled upon application. Still the jury decided not to grant any money yet. Instead the jury decided to request more preparations from six applying teams.

farmsubsidy.org under the wings of journalismfund.eu

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:47:56 +0100

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.

Tomorrow’s journalist is an emancipated journalist

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:16:34 +0100

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.