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BRUSSELS - The question of stimulating quality journalism is almost automatically a question of funding quality journalism, too. With that in mind, Journalismfund.eu will run a number of articles, comments and thoughts on alternative funding for quality journalism in the next few months. First up: a summary of the research article The Third Way – Why We Need Foundation-Financed Media, by Stephan Weichert.

BRUSSELS - The European Commission is proud to present the fifth edition of the EU Health Prize for Journalists. It is awarded to stimulate high-quality journalism that raises awareness of issues related to healthcare and citizen's rights.

BRUSSELS - On Tuesday evening 11 June, former editor-in-chief of Le Soir Béatrice Delvaux and investigative journalist Alain Lallemand talked with ICIJ director Gerard Ryle about offshore leaks, the workings of ICIJ and the future of investigative journalism.

BRUSSELS - For the first time since the revelation of the tax haven scandal 'Offshore Leaks' the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Australian journalist Gerard Ryle, will be in Europe to speak about the workings of the investigation and the future developments of the project.

BRUSSELS - Paul Bradshaw publishes the Online Journalism Blog and is the founder of investigative journalism website Help Me Investigate. At the #dataharvest13 conference, he talked about Help Me Investigate the Olympics, which combined crowdsourcing, cross-border and data journalism in a unique investigation into wrongdoings around the Olympic torch relay of 2012.

BRUSSELS - On 3 and 4 May 2013 the third edition of Journalismfund.eu’s Data Harvest Conference took place in Erasmushogeschool in Brussels. Some 150 investigative and data journalists and programmers from all across the European continent took part in what was a great harvest of ideas and digital research methods.

BRUSSELS - For Press Freedom Day 2013, Journalismfund.eu and PEN Vlaanderen hosted a special event on Friday 3 May in Brussels to discuss the role of investigative journalism in safeguarding freedom of the press.

The Data Harvest Conference started in style, with some 150 participants and speakers from more than 20 different countries. Here's what the participants found of it.

BRUSSELS – Blaž Zgaga is a busy man. The In the Name of the State trilogy that he co-authored with colleague Matej Šurc, about illegal arms trade in Slovenia during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, is booming in the Balkans. He recently co-founded the Slovene Centre for Investigative Journalism and was involved in ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks project.