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BRUSSELS - During its September 2017 application round, Journalismfund.eu received 9 applications for grants. The total amount applied for was €91,580.

Investigate Europe, a Journalismfund coordinated network, has published its third round of investigations. The team of nine investigative journalists from around Europe has been working on transnational stories since its launch last year. 

This investigation uncovered cases of corruption involving European companies which was well documented in the published work. The publications in different media outlets led to a subsequent follow up by a member of the European parliament who contacted the team for more details on the issue.

PARIS – A Journalismfund.eu supported cross-border feature on the militarisation in the Baltics has won the prestigious multimedia journalism prize Prix Philippe Chaffanjon in Paris, France.

In an unprecedented EU-wide collaborative effort, the journalists from "The MEPs Project" located in every member state investigated how members of the European Parliament (MEPs) make use of the general expenses payments they receive every month.

EIJC17 & Dataharvest is just finished and it was awesome! We are thrilled to announce the dates for EIJC18 and EIJC19. EIJC 2018 will take place from 24 to 27 May. While EIJC19 will take place from 16 -19 May 2019.

In our hyper-connected era, struggles for power increasingly take place in the digital realm. Hence, the digital lives of journalists who try to denounce injustice have increasingly become the target of cyber attacks, organised on behalf of powerful players under scrutiny.

Most Americans these days get their main news from Google or Facebook, two tools that rely heavily on algorithms. A study in 2015 showed that the way a search engine like Google selects and prioritises search results on political candidates can have an influence on voters’ preferences.