JX Fund – European Fund for Journalism in Exile

This grant programme supports cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets to conduct investigations into environmental affairs related to geographical Europe.

Are you an independent journalist who closely follows what is happening in the world and would like to report on it? And not only about matters that dominate the front pages of the newspapers and the opening of the news, but also about events in countries that are less in the spotlight? Would you like to make high-level reports abroad? Then this fund is for you!

Under the project Fill the Space, DW Akademie is developing and rolling out a “Media Emergency Kit” for Syrian media. Through this call, DW Akademie invites Syrian media organisations to express their interest in being selected as one of five (5) core outlets to receive the Media Emergency Kit: an intensive training programme, ongoing mentorship, and a media production kit.

Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) launches their 2026 Call for Applications for journalists and community reporters under our Amplifying Voices of Women and Girls program. Full-time and freelance journalists and community reporters from Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, DRC, Kenya, South Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Philippines, as well as Syrian journalists in Türkiye and Somali journalists in Kenya, are invited to apply.

The Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CiJi), co-funded by the European Union, invites media outlets to apply for grants supporting their Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) certification audit. This program helps strengthen transparency, credibility, and independence in journalism across Europe.

The Voices Awards is an international competition rewarding innovative ideas and changemakers in the fields of journalism and media freedom, which awards 25 projects with €1,200. This amount is intended to cover both the prize money and the necessary travel and accommodation expenses for the winner to attend the Voices
Festival in November, where the winners will be presented.

The Invisible Life grant programme will form part of Journalismfund’s Environmental Investigative Journalism Grant programme, to raise awareness, increase transparency and promote well-informed public debate on food and sustainability by supporting journalists. The focus is on the lives and welfare of farmed animals. The programme is NOT intended to promote activism or a single point of view; rather, it seeks to bring together facts, context and diverse perspectives to enrich and better inform public debate.

Two separate opportunities are available: you may apply for a grant (which includes participation in the event if selected), or apply to attend as a participant (call for participation will be open from 6 July to 1 September 2026). Separate applications are required. Grant recipients will automatically be registered to attend the event in Strasbourg on 9–10 November.

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.

Amu TV was born out of the collapse of Afghanistan’s media landscape, and is one of the most influential exiled media outlets serving Afghanistan today. By broadcasting via satellite from the US, the channel has bypassed Taliban censorship and reached millions of viewers inside the country, offering a rare space for uncensored news, political debate, entertainment, and more.

In a series of workshops, exiled journalists now living in the UK told how all faced significant barriers to continuing their careers. Many struggled to gain a foothold in the UK media industry, so the Rory Peck Trust is partnering with City St George’s, University of London, to enable one journalist-in-exile to complete an M.A. in International Journalism.

In this podcast episode of Booda Media’s “Fasl-e-Digher” program, Lina Rozbeh, a renowned Afghan poet, writer and journalists talks about women, migration, war, identity, freedom, the Taliban and the current situation and future of Afghanistan. Moreover, she discusses her experience in media and literature, the fate of women, the role of intellectuals and the responsibility of media.

The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for enterprise and underreported stories about global health inequities and challenges. They are interested in ambitious projects about systemic barriers to all sorts of care, as well as promising research, treatment advances, or emerging health threats that merit investigation and more.

This opportunity is open to all newsrooms and independent journalists worldwide. They value data, investigative, and accountability journalism projects that tackle systemic issues and hold to account powerful local figures. You decide what underreported stories your community needs to engage with, and they support that reporting and champion it.

The Pulitzer Center encourages proposals that push the envelope in data collection and analysis and make use of advanced data mining techniques, such as machine learning. They seek compelling data-driven storytelling, based on original data collection and analysis and strong visuals, that has the potential to shape public discourse and hold the powerful accountable.

The Plus Hub is a shared services initiative from ICFJ+ that gives news providers access to shared, enterprise-level technical support and services they can’t afford on their own. Their goal is to provide critical infrastructure for civic intelligence. If your media organisation is interested in receiving digital protection, apply here.

A number of journalists in Afghanistan say the process of reporting has become increasingly difficult. They say they live under constant fear of surveillance, arrest, and pressure by the Taliban. According to these journalists, working with exile media outlets is considered a crime by the Taliban, and journalists themselves are treated as criminals.

After growing up stateless in Iran, Haideh Faghiry finally found a sense of home in Kabul—until the Taliban takeover forced her to flee again. In this Tagesspiegel essay, the Afghan journalist reflects on exile, belonging and the pain of losing a homeland twice.