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OSLO - One of the journalists behind Norwegian daily Aftenposten's recent investigation into secret surveillance in Oslo will be speaking at Journalismfund.eu's Dataharvest+ Conference 2015. Per Anders Johansen will show how they revealed the secret surveillance of Norway's leaders.

BRUSSELS - In the run-up to our extra application round (deadline 26 January 2015) we are organising a second day of Skype advice sessions with Brigitte Alfter on Tuesday January 6th.

BRUSSELS – Investigative journalist Marina Walker, deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and project manager of their recent #LuxLeaks investigation, will be speaking at Journalismfund.eu’s Dataharvest Conference in May 2015.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has joined forces with the Council of Europe (CoE) and media freedom partner agencies, in launching a new online “rapid reaction” platform for journalists under threats.

BRUSSELS – We are happy to announce an extra application deadline early 2015. Investigative journalists from across Europe who are planning a transnational collaborative story are invited to apply for a working grant.

TALLINN - Former Journalismfund.eu grantee Piret Reiljan and several colleagues at Estonian business news site www.aripaev.ee published an article about a website where unlisted personal mobile phone numbers are published with full names of their owners.

BRUSSELS - In 2012 we presented a study on investigative journalism in and on Europe at the European Parliament. It had been issued by the Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control. As it turns out, neither the study itself, nor the track it was part of, has lead to anything.

VIENNA - Criminal defamation laws, the imprisonment of journalists, violent attacks on journalists, endemic impunity for such crimes and a spate of emerging restrictions on digital journalism are the five greatest challenges to press freedom around the world, according to the International Press Institute (IPI). It launched a the campaign #WEWANTCHANGE to tackle these issues.

In 2014, a grant (pre-research) was awarded to an Antwerp-based filmmaker for the production of her documentary film entitled Waiting for August. The film is about Georgiana, a 15-year-old teenager from Bacau, who had to raise her six siblings alone when her mother went to work in Belgium in order to support her family. This is a story which illustrates the situation of countless other Romanian children.