JX Fund – European Fund for Journalism in Exile

We invite two journalists from countries with restricted press and information freedoms to Berlin for a six-month stay. During their time in Berlin, the media professionals can take a break from their daily responsibilities, recover from difficult working conditions, and broaden their personal and professional horizons. At the end of the six months, the fellows return to their home countries with renewed energy and new perspectives to continue their journalistic work.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Germany will once again invite journalists from countries with restricted freedom of press and information to Berlin for our annual fellowship program. Fellows will be able to take time off from their daily obligations to recover from their difficult working conditions. They will learn new skills to better protect themselves by taking part in a comprehensive safety training program.

The Innovative tools and business models action is aimed at encouraging the development and/or the spread of innovative tools and business models to improve the visibility, availability, audience and diversity of European works in the digital age and/or the competitiveness and/or the greening process of the European audiovisual industry.

The Environmental Investigative Journalism programme supports cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets investigating illegal, unreported, and unregulated environmental issues linked to European interests, both within and beyond Europe.

This grant programme supports activities and services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development to build the capacities of environmental investigative journalists.

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) announce a call for expressions of interests to participate in a week-long hostile environment and awareness training (HEAT) near Vienna, Austria, for journalists in the South Caucasus, the Western Balkans, Moldova and Ukraine.

The Fund for Investigative Journalism provides grants and other support for reporters to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact. Freelance journalists, staff reporters and media outlets are eligible for grants, and their investigations can be for print, online or broadcast stories, books, documentaries or podcasts.

The European Union Creative Europe programme (cross-sectoral strand) has launched the 6th yearly call for cross-border collaborative proposals between news media organisations focusing on innovative business models and/or journalistic projects across Europe. The competition is open to organisations from Georgia and Ukraine.

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.

In response to growing threats against media professionals, EMIF has launched the SAFE Initiative to provide urgent support and resources that protect the safety and resilience of those fighting disinformation and defending democratic dialogue.

The European Commission is launching a new call as part of its Creative Europe Programme for innovative cross-border media literacy projects. Applications will be accepted from 23 October 2025 until 11 March 2026. The call for proposals has been launched under the cross-sectoral strand of the Creative Europe Programme, which is open to Georgia and Ukraine.

The award-winning European Cross-border Grant programme receives further funding to continue its mission. The new grant programme aims to connect academics, industry professionals, and subject matter experts with local, regional, national, and investigative journalists.

The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) recognises that physical threats to the life, safety, wellbeing, and security of journalists and media organisations remain a serious concern in many European countries. The recent actions of some governments in passing laws that restrict the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media suggest that there is a need for advocacy against such laws or to improve existing legislation.

ECPMF’s Journalists-in-Residence (JiR) programme offers temporary shelter for journalists facing harassment and intimidation as a direct result of their work. Journalists get the chance to rest and recuperate in a safe and discreet place, and also to continue their investigative work at their own pace and use their time in Leipzig for networking and finding solidarity.

Larysa Shchyrakova from Homiel worked at Belsat almost from the very beginning, since 2008. The journalist did not have a quiet life even before 2020, but after the protests and mass repressions began, life turned into a waiting game — when will they come for her? Larysa says that when they really came, she exhaled, because she could no longer be afraid.

When a newsroom is forced into exile, relocation is often described as hope: physical safety, freedom of expression, open internet access, and the ability to publish without censorship. In practice, however, the main challenge quickly moves from physical security to survival and continuity.

“A blogger and journalist from Russia. Left the country due to persecution for anti-war articles. Received political asylum in France. I write about my new life.”

This report introduces the previously unknown Spyware ResidentBat used by the Belarussian KGB (secret service) – It targets Android phones and is installed through physical device access. Broad application permissions and an accessibility service allow the app access to a wide range of data, spanning phone calls, SMS, encrypted messenger chats and files on the phone.