Supported projects

GOTHENBURG - With support from Journalismfund Europe, GIJN developed and organized the Investigative Agenda for Climate Change Journalism, a groundbreaking, day-long collaborative workshop that brought together leading investigative journalists on climate change. 

SKOPJE - Journalismfund Europe supported SCOOP Macedonia in this project aimed at raising awareness about pollution through investigative and data journalism.

SÃO PAULO - This project aimed to train environmental reporters to trace supply chains linked to deforestation, follow money trails and deliver cross-border investigations on profiteering European markets. 

AMSTERDAM / BRUSSELS - The official handbook of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists covers the internationally renowned Story-Based Inquiry method, which is a quick and efficient way to organise and conduct journalistic research. The authors also discuss the social ...

BRUSSELS / THE HAGUE - Did DPG Media, bpost and newspaper distributor PPP play under a hat for bringing in and distributing the hundreds of millions of public support? Where exactly do the millions of euros of public money for investigative journalism end up? A dossier on subsidy flows to the ...

BUDAPEST - Hungary during the 2022 election campaign: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán exercises a degree of media control that is unparalleled in the EU. A group of young journalists is taking on state propaganda.

BRUSSELS - “Are we, as mainstream media, doing our job well enough?” It's a question that has preoccupied VRT investigative journalist Luc Pauwels for years. Because he sees too many worrying warning signs.

ANTWERP - FactRank is a free tool that automatically filters out statements from Dutch-language texts worthy of fact-checking.

GHENT - In this project, Chase provided grants and coaching to young journalists so they could create digital stories about social change in urban communities.

GHENT - Sonderland was a journalism production house that produced pieces for other media outlets, focusing on one theme for an entire year. In 2019, the theme was “shelter” as a basic need.

BORGERHOUT - Apache Local was a local journalism project in which news site Apache explored four themes with the help of local citizens and journalists.

MECHELEN - The Wablieft centre for clear language developed an online news channel with quality news for low-literature adults.

GHENT - Podlab XL is a training programme for non-fiction podcast makers, that coaches audio novices from podcast idea to pilot.

BORGERHOUT - Factcheck.Vlaanderen is an online platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect disinformation and polarisation so that fact-checkers can verify and combat it.  

GHENT - UITLANDER is a platform for high-quality, international stories about and by Belgians living abroad, made for the Belgian home audience.

VILVOORDE - With this project regional television broadcaster RINGtv aims to get young people more involved in politics and vice versa.

ANTWERP - Karl van den Broeck, who succeeded Georges Timmerman as editor-in-chief of Apache in 2014, tells in a six-part series how the top man of De Persgroep (now DPG Media) committed a sophisticated stealth murder on Flanders' most important independent progressive newspaper De Morgen. 

ANTWERP - He was one of the most important investigative journalists in Belgium. He published revelations about the murder of the leader of the socialist party André Cools, the Gang of Nivelles, the arms trade and the extreme right. He loved the idea that those in power would have been safer without ...

BRUSSELS - Across Europe, misinformation campaigns launched online by a handful of people, ahead of the European Union elections in May 2019. The series of articles reveals the most common misinformation techniques and goes behind the scenes to meet those who fight it.

BURUNDI - Bob Rugurika is the director of Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), the most popular independent radio station in Burundi. As an investigative journalist, he is also a forerunner in the fight for freedom of expression in his country, willing to risk his life to expose the truth. 

MADRID - Fake news goes further than current news facts that are distorted. It is about inspiring stories and photos that will lead a life of their own. The penitent bullfighter is one of them. In the photo you can see a bull almost begging for its life, while the bullfighter is sitting aside ...

KINSHASA - Redhorse Reporter Roel Nollet goes to Kinshasa, Congo to meet former professional boxer, Champion Ndangi. Champion doesn't only train the new generation of boxers, but also a new batch of video journalists. "The link between boxing and the press," he says, "is 'combat". "They pulled out ...

BUDAPEST - It’s getting ever harder to gain access to public interest data in Hungary. This is particularly problematic, taking into consideration that reporting on the government’s abuse of power and the endemic corruption is one of the last remaining checks and balances in Hungary.

LONDON - Journalists in Western Europe have broadcast and printed stories about Eastern Europe that are distorted or false, leading to a misrepresentation of reality that victimises nations and some of their poorest and most vulnerable citizens.

BUDAPEST - "We lost our media”, stated Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán in a rare interview in early 2015. He was referring to the media empire of a longtime ally-turned-enemy.

LUXEMBURG - Google notifies media and information sites when an article is delinked from its search engine after a Right to be Forgotten request is approved. These notifications can reviewed, collected in a database, deleted or ignored. Which criteria does Google follow to accept or refuse a request ...

KINSHASA - Sisters Katrijn and Goele Geeraert traveled through the Democratic Republic of the Congo for two months and met different youngsters. They want to get to know the youth of Congo better and give an illustration of the life of Congolese youngsters today through those meetings.

BRUSSELS - What do politicians think about media and political reporting? In recent months, Apache.be has spoken with the party chairmen of the liberal party Open VLD, the Christian democratic party CD&V, the socialist party Sp.a and the green party Groen and with various media specialists and ...

BAGHDAD - Zelfa Madhloum went to Iraq to find Iraqis returning to their country after having emigrated. What is more, it was her first visit to her country of origin. Against everyone's advice, she decided to follow her destiny in Iraq. She immerses herself in the new, shocking world, gets to know ...

MAPUTO - To his great surprise, film journalist and historian Guido Convents was told by Portuguese journalists in 2006 that Mozambique had no significant film culture or production. Even within the Belgian film industry, nobody seemed to have any knowledge of Mozambican cinema.