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BRUSSELS - If you have always envisioned yourself as an international news reporter, this is the right opportunity for you! The application process for MoNYS 2013 Press Room is now open.

COPENHAGEN - SCOOP, a network for investigative journalists in different regions in the world, celebrates its 10th anniversary. The first meeting was in Kyiv in the beginning of January 2003, after which a pilot project was launched in Ukraine.

AMSTERDAM - Journalists Adrian Mogoș and Vitalie Călugăreanu have been shortlisted for the European Press Prize. Their story Buy you way into EU Citizenship was supported by Journalismfund.eu.

KYIV - The Russian Federation has denied Ukrainian journalist Oleg Khomenok entry into the country for the next five years.

TAMPERE - A study into online journalistic start-ups and their business models conducted as a joint project of three universities was published recently. By looking at 69 case studies, it analyses the online journalism landscape in nine countries and gives recommendations to media entrepreneurs on how to build a sustainable online platform.

Journalismfund.eu had a record number of applications in the past round: 41 managed to submit in time! We also had a record high rate of money needed and money available: € 314.000 were asked, and we had only € 20.000 to distribute. The jury was strict, the decisions are made. But future applicants can learn a lot from jury members’ comments. The most important ones are compiled here. 

Can investigative journalism be instrumental in the detection of and fight against corruption and fraud with EU funds, and if so, how?

BRUSSELS - A study on investigative journalism in and on Europe was presented at the European Parliament on 9 October 2012. It was requested by the Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control and executed by Margo Smit for the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund.

Slovenian investigative journalists Matej Surc and Blaz Zgaga have won the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2012 for their investigative work on arms dealing in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s that was supported by Journalismfund.eu and led to the bestselling trilogy In the Name of the State.