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Voices Awards 2026

  • VOICES

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.

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The Invisible Life Grant

  • Journalismfund Europe

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.

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2 Youth Facing Discrimination Grants

  • CoE

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.

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Fund For Investigative Journalism

  • FIJ

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.

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The Undercover Journalist

  • Zan Times
  • Sophia Malek

Coffee in the morning, fear by afternoon: an Afghan journalist works undercover for an exiled media outlet, dreading every knock at the gate. After interviewing a woman with a disability about domestic violence, she halts publication — fearing surveillance cameras could expose her identity.

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Cyberattacks as a Tactic of Digital TNR

  • Freedom House

A new report from Cloudflare, a company that provides cybersecurity services to internet providers, highlights the array of digital transnational repression tactics employed against exile media outlets and journalists. The report finds that around 5 percent of the 41 billion requests directed to exile journalism websites between February 2025 and January 2026 were harmful and sought to disrupt the outlets’ connections to their readers.

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Navigating Media Management in Exile

  • Clare Cook & David Lush

Clare Cook and David Lush explore how exiled media managers keep organisations running through repeated forced relocations. Drawing on workshops and interviews with exiled media leaders, they map five stages of instability and apply mixed embeddedness theory to show how support for exiled media can be strengthened.

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How Amu TV Keeps Afghan Independent Media Alive From Exile

  • Journalism Institute
  • Asmamaw Kassa

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.

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New Scholarship For Journalists-in-Exile

  • Rory Peck Trust

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.

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China and Russia’s Authoritarian Influence at Scale

  • NED
  • Kevin Sheives, Alexander Cooley, Caroline Costello, William Nee & Florindo Chivucute

China and Russia, principally, test the limits of this new period of autocratic impunity—not just in the abstract but in ways that fundamentally impact citizens, businesses, democratic institutions, and the practice of basic freedoms in every region. This essay series analyzes how these emerging patterns will create new vulnerabilities for democracy actors.

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New RSF Report: National Security as a Weapon Against Journalism

  • RSF

What do Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan have in common? All were prosecuted in the name of “national security” between 2020 and 2026. They are far from isolated cases. From Gaza to Hong Kong to Managua, 100s of journalists are being targeted for providing citizens with reliable news.

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What is the Biggest Lie About Afghan Women?

  • Booda Media

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.

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Global Health Inequities, Risks and Solutions

  • Pulitzer Center

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.

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Democracy Reporting Grant

  • Pulitzer Center

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.

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Data Journalism Grants

  • Pulitzer Center

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.

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For Journalists in Exile, Staying Online Is Part of the Fight

  • ICFJ

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.

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Report on Independent Media in South and Southeast Asia

  • Media Development Investment Fund

Written by media practitioners, editors, media coaches and consultants who have actively worked with MDIF’s partner outlets in the region, this report brings together articles on how independent media organizations are adapting, innovating and building resilience in increasingly difficult political and financial environments.

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Media Repression and Restrictions on Information Flow

  • 8AM Media

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.

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