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MECHELEN - Nils Hanson, editor-in-chief of the Swedish “Mission Investigate”, feels that probably nothing is as important as pre-publication fact-checking.

BRUSSELS - Having doubts about your grant application? Just ask! Our editorial coordinator Trine Smistrup offers special pre-application advice via Skype.

We are pleased to announce the next upcoming deadline. Investigative journalists from across Europe who are planning a transnational collaborative story are invited to apply for a working grant.

KAMPALA - Having a child with a disability poses severe challenges to parents, making their lives more difficult. For parents living in a very poor developing country it’s even more challenging. Mercy Killing is a documentary about parents in Uganda who kill their disabled children out of desperation. The parents of disabled children kill or allow them to die by starving them or denying them medical attention because of the belief that these children are better off dead than having to endure a painful and incurable disability.

MADRID - At a Journalismfund's jury event on the 28th of November at 7 pm in Madrid, Mar Cabra officially announced her retirement from the jury.

BRUSSELS - We are pleased to announce that journalismfund.eu received 21 applications asking for a total amount of €235.415. Not all lived up to formal criteria, so in the end the jury discussed 12 projects to a total of €157,150.

MADRID - Secret revealed: Mar Cabra, data editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has been on the Journalismfund.eu jury for the last four years, making decisions on the grant applications.