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The European Press Prize has published all shortlisted projects for 2020. You can find all the nominated works now on its website to read and explore.  

BRUSSELS – European Cross-Border Grants program for teams of professional European journalists has got a deadline coming up on the 15th of April. In the run-up to this deadline, we offer advice to journalists with questions about their idea or application.

Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), first centre for investigative reporting in Italy, launched  its media outlet, IrpiMedia. It will be mainly an investigative media outlet, hosting written investigations and features but also documentaries and podcasts: its first release is with Verified, out now on Stitcher. 

Journalismfund.eu's team currently works from home. But we remain in constant contact with all our partners, grantees, potential applicants and all other stakeholders.

Money Trail offers a new five-day training course focused on how to make you a better and more secure investigative reporter. The course takes place from 29 June until 3 July 2020 in Nairobi. Deadline for applications is 9 March 2020.

MADRID - "Land of plenty, land of but a few" has won the King of Spain International Journalism Award in the category environmental and sustainable development journalism. This multimedia project was realized by four journalists from Mozambique, Portugal and The Netherlands and supported by Journalismfund.eu.

A major manufacturer of the insecticide chlorpyrifos Corteva Inc will stop making the chemical at the end of the year. This became possible thanks to Journalismfund.eu-supported cross-border investigation on chlorpyrifos conducted by the collaborative team of journalists from Poland, Denmark and Slovenia. 

For Journalismfund.eu 2019 proved a year of consolidation and continued growth for its current programmes and its grantees. Record amounts of grant money over the past two years – 920.651 euro in 2019 and 1.230.567 euro in 2018 – were allocated to the teams of journalists worldwide. In 2019 alone, we supported 119 projects consisting of 262 journalists all over Europe and beyond. 

BRUSSELS - We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Mr. Paul Decroos, our honorary chairman, co-founder and member of the General Assembly of Journalismfund.eu / Pascal Decroos Fund and Scriptie vzw.