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This grant and mentoring programme by Journalismfund Europe aims to address the shortage of independent journalism by providing grants to investigative journalism projects in Europe and encouraging cross-border collaboration. In 2025 the total grant budget is €450,000 to distribute over two application rounds (€225,000 per call).
The Courage in Journalism Awards recognize women journalists who stand strong against adversity, report on taboo topics, and work in hostile environments. The Wallis Annenberg Justice for Women Journalists Award highlights those detained or imprisoned for their work. Nominations for the 36th annual Courage Awards are open to women and nonbinary journalists worldwide.
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 Validation Booster (VB) call offers tailor-made support for European media outlets, networks, and content creators to validate their business ideas. Led by the International Press Institute (IPI) with partners Thomson Media, The Fix Foundation, and BIRN, the programme is co-funded by the EU and focuses on validating innovative digital media projects.
This grant can be awarded to cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets to conduct investigations into environmental affairs related to Europe (all the countries, not only the EU). The resulting stories must be published in at least two outlets in two different countries, at least one must be a European media.
This grant and mentoring programme by Journalismfund Europe as part of the ongoing PluPro project aims to empower 50 local independent media outlets. The goal is to foster resilience and viability through capacity-building activities, innovation driven by design-thinking practices, and the creation of a repository of case studies and best practices. The programme provides up to 25 grants of up to €5,000 per cycle.
The Open Society Institute – Sofia is offering grants to enhance media resilience and promote quality journalism in Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, and Slovenia. In 2025, €1,560,000 is available, with up to €60,000 per initiative. 10% supports investigative journalism, and 30% focuses on local media.
The International Women’s Media Foundation is launching the Women on the Ground program to enhance coverage of critical issues in Ukraine. Open to American, French, and German journalists, fellows will participate in a reporting trip, starting in Warsaw, followed by training and reporting in Ukraine.
The Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship provides academic and professional opportunities to advance the reporting skills of women and nonbinary journalists who focus on human rights and social justice. The Fellow will complete research and coursework at MIT’s Center for International Studies and journalism internships at The Boston Globe and The New York Times.
Nominations are open for the fifth annual IJ4EU Impact Award, celebrating cross-border investigative journalism. Run by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), the award recognizes teams that uncovered groundbreaking stories in 2024. Three winners will each receive €5,000, with the winners announced at the UNCOVERED 2025 conference.
The Marion Gräfin Dönhoff Journalism Fellowship by IPJ is intended to give 10 – 12 young journalists from Germany and Eastern Europe annually the opportunity to gain a personal impression of current political, economic and cultural developments and backgrounds. Participants work in a foreign journalistic environment and thereby gain insights into the media landscape of their host country.
The Media Pluralism Fund will allocate €1,400,000 financial support to local and regional outlets, community media, investigative journalism, and public interest news organisations that operate in “news deserts” or areas experiencing strained media pluralism. The fund will be directly channeled to around 40 eligible local, regions, community, and investigative news media or initiatives.
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.
Journalists with refugee and immigration experience bring important access, expertise, and underrepresented perspectives to their newsrooms. However, racism and discrimination in the workplace are not uncommon for them, especially when they speak German with an accent. With a weekend retreat, we offer media professionals a space for exchange, networking, and empowerment.
This article discusses how Pakistani journalists exiled due to threats now influence the media landscape from abroad, leveraging digital platforms like YouTube to provide alternative perspectives and analysis. This “diaspora effect” offers more in-depth coverage of events like the Balochistan train hijacking, contrasting with the sanitized domestic media.
How are exiled and hybrid outlets building resilient digitally-enabled outlets? How can these networks be more active in shaping the norms and policies that will shape the digital environment they increasingly depend upon? This lightening-talk panel presents results from CIMA research and a side-line discussion hosted at the ARIJ forum.
For more than a quarter century, elPeriódico was Guatemala’s boldest daily newspaper. Then, citing persecution and political and economic pressures, in May 2023, the newspaper announced it was shutting its doors. Although the closure of elPeriódico is final, the outlet’s contributions to history are now once again accessible.
The Pulitzer Center is eager to support timely, in-depth journalism projects that tackle science denial and the spread of science misinformation and disinformation for its new Truth Decay grant initiative. This opportunity is open to all newsroom staff and independent journalists in the United States and abroad.