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Journalists, students and educators of color are eligible for fellowships to attend a virtual conference. Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) is offering fellowships and scholarships to attend AccessFest 2024. AccessFest focuses on expanding IRE’s efforts to provide more accessible training centered on belonging, equity, and inclusion in the newsroom and through better news coverage of inequities in the communities journalists serve.
Internews’ EJN, is offering organizational grants of $5,000 to $10,000 to media outlets, NGOs, academic institutions, and other interested groups to support media and journalism activities related to environmental crimes in the Amazon Region in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
The Publix Fellowship for Media Entrepreneurs, supported by the Schöpflin Foundation, supports two media professionals from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland who are working on journalism projects in the public interest. The program offers a residency at the Reuters Institute in Oxford and at Publix in Berlin.
The Journalist Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute is one of the world’s leading schemes for practising, mid-career journalists to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth. The majority of our Journalist Fellows are fully-funded and they also receive a stipend to cover living and travel costs.
The Boris Zimin Foundation and the Mikhail Khodorkovsky Foundation offer support to projects whose important work has temporarily been left without funding. The projects in question are Russian-language media, human rights, and analytical projects, as well as humanitarian aid projects operating in Ukraine.
This programme aims to respond to the need for media organizations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.
IJ4EU’s Investigation Support Scheme provides grants of between €5,000 and €50,000 to support cross-border investigative projects in Europe. The scheme will provide €1.5 million in grants in 2024/25. It is managed by the International Press Institute (IPI).
IJ4EU’s Freelancer Support Scheme provides teams of journalists working outside of newsroom structures with grants of up to €20,000 plus an extra cushion of tailored assistance including training, mentoring and networking opportunities.
DW Akademie is accepting applications for its International Media Studies program (IMS) in Bonn, Germany, which will start in September 2025. Students who successfully complete the four-semester program will be awarded a master of arts degree. The program offers a mix of research, lectures and practical experience and combines these disciplines: media and development, journalism, communications and media management.
The Goethe Institut, with the financial support of the European Union, is accepting applications for the MOST IV mobility program, which promotes professional exchange between specialists from Belarus and the European Union. The program allows Belarusians living in Belarus or abroad to intern in one or more European countries to improve their qualifications, establish professional contacts, and build partnerships with European organizations.
The IWMF will provide identity-informed newsroom training to newsrooms in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. These trainings provide a customized approach to topics faced by each newsroom in the areas of holistic safety policy creation and tailored training sessions.
President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including over $268 million allocated by Congress to support independent media and the free flow of information. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces this decision, which has plunged NGOs, media outlets, and journalists doing vital work into chaotic uncertainty.
Paul Sonne (NYT) reports on the Kremlin’s efforts to cripple YouTube in Russia, pushing users toward state-controlled platforms. While many Russians are finding ways around the restrictions through VPNs, journalist Ilya Shepelin, now in exile, warns that only politically active users will remain on YouTube.
In Haiti, journalism is a high-risk profession. Many Haitian journalists have chosen exile in the face of the social, political, economic and security crisis that affects their country. Three journalists who left Haiti to save their lives explained to LatAm Journalism Review (LJR) what it means to be a Haitian journalist in exile.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released its 2024 Assistance Report, revealing a growing trend of forced exile among journalists worldwide. In 2024, the organization allocated 70% of its emergency funds to relocating over 700 persecuted journalists and provided financial aid to 42 media outlets facing crises.
Belarusian dictator Lukashenko declared himself the victor in the country’s latest so-called presidential elections on Jan. 26, in which no political opposition was allowed to take part. Exiled journalists, including Hanna Komar, Kseniya Halubovich, and Alina Rudina, shared their insights with the Kyiv Independent on the state of press freedom in Belarus following the election.
In this article, Izabella Tabarovsky explores how Putin’s war in Ukraine depends on silencing independent media. She examines the struggles of Russian journalists in exile, who, despite immense challenges, are now producing groundbreaking reports and creatively circumventing censorship.
A new comprehensive article by researcher Sheila B. Lalwani exposes how spyware is increasingly being used to target journalists worldwide, including those in exile. This growing digital threat fuels concerns about surveillance, self-censorship, and the further erosion of press freedom.