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Award-Winning Open Letter to Journalists Still in China

  • Vision Times
  • Li Bai’an

Exiled Journalist Li Bai’an writes about the inner conflict of journalists in China, who are forced to ignore the truth under state pressure but still remember why they became journalists. She urges them to recognize that their conscience is not gone, only suppressed by fear under Xi Jinping’s rule.

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Myanmar’s Independent Media Innovates to Survive

  • Nieman Reports
  • Lorcan Lovett

The rollback of press freedom programs, as well as the loss of some funding from European nations refocused on security closer to home, has left exiled media outlets from Myanmar, Belarus, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and other countries that lack a free press facing the same question: When decades-long donors pull out, what comes next?

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Meydan TV: Exiled Media Outlet based in Berlin

  • Menschen Machen Medien
  • Danilo Höpfner

The interview is about the lack of independent media in Azerbaijan, where most people get their news only from state television, and free newspapers have been shut down. It discusses Meydan TV, an independent Azerbaijani media outlet based in Berlin, and features Matt Kasper talking about press freedom, government repression, and the role of media operating in exile.

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Truth in Exile: Journalism and the Fight for Credibility

  • Centre for Governance Studies

When technology can manufacture any reality, the journalist becomes both witness and suspect. How can the media rebuild trust when truth itself feels optional? A conversation among editors, reporters, and thinkers on courage, verification, and storytelling in a time of noise.

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Transnational Repression against Journalists in Exile

  • ECPMF

Transnational repression (TNR), the cross-border targeting, intimidation, and harassment of journalists and human rights defenders, is increasingly undermining press freedom and human rights in Europe and beyond. Journalists in exile often remain subjects of sustained threats, surveillance, cyber-attacks, psychological pressure, and harassment long after reaching presumed safety.

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Exiled Media Will Leave Grant Dependency Behind

  • NiemanLab
  • José J. Nieves

In 2026, exiled media outlets will overhaul their business models, leaving behind grant dependency and moving toward diversified schemes that include products and services that their audiences — especially readers in the diaspora — are willing to pay for.

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Twenty years of Zamaneh Media: A legacy in exile

  • NEMO

The Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO) is proud to join in celebrating the 20th anniversary of Zamaneh Media and its flagship independent journalism platform, Radio Zamaneh, which serves audiences in Iran and diaspora communities worldwide. On December 16, Zamaneh’s team will commemorate this milestone with a donation campaign, and by sharing highlights of their work on their website.

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EU’s Dangerous ‘Return Hubs’ Policy

  • ECPMF

The EU’s new return policy risks jeopardising the lives of vulnerable journalists and human rights defenders living in exile. As such, it undermines the very principles of press freedom and human rights it aims to uphold and the safe haven the EU seeks to provide for journalists from all over the world threatened for reporting on the truth. ECPMF and undersigning organisations urge the EU to immediately reconsider these adverse effects and prioritise the protection of those who have already fled persecution.

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Azerbaijan: The Price of Victory and the Silence of Dissent

  • Correctiv
  • Fatima Karimova

With our exile expertise, we want to reveal global connections and understand what we can learn from this for free, democratic coexistence. In this episode, Azerbaijani journalist Fatima Karimova writes about the repression of media workers in her homeland and why the European Union repeatedly turns a blind eye to it.

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AI Spotlight Series

  • The Pulitzer Center

This toolkit builds on the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, an initiative designed to expand the field of AI accountability reporting by equipping journalists worldwide with the skills and knowledge necessary to cover AI critically and responsibly. In an effort to make the AI Spotlight Series resources even more accessible, they are open-sourcing the course modules, slide decks, and videos produced by our instructors who are some of the world’s leading tech reporters and editors.

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Building a Pro-Democracy Media for Vietnam in Exile

  • New Bloom
  • Brian Hioe

The article features an interview with Trịnh Hữu Long, a Vietnamese journalist living in exile in Taiwan. Long explains that he has spent the past nine years introducing himself as “from Vietnam, but based in Taiwan,” where he now considers home. He co-founded and works for the independent magazines Luật Khoa and The Vietnamese.

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Why Myanmar Media is Key to Changing Attitudes to Disability

  • UNESCO

The article describes how UNESCO is training journalists from Myanmar to improve disability-inclusive reporting, combat stigma, and ensure more accurate and accessible media coverage. It highlights how local and ethnic media, guided by persons with disabilities, can drive meaningful change by shifting narratives, newsroom practices, and representation.

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Five Tools to Detect, Analyze and Counter Disinformation

  • LatAm Journalism Review (LJR)
  • César López Linares

The following list brings together five tools that media outlets and fact-checking organizations use for tasks ranging from tracking disinformation and analyzing its dissemination patterns, to recovering deleted content and analyzing audiovisual material.

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Exiled Channels Dominate Despite Iran Media Crackdown

  • ZoomBangla News

Iran’s government is intensifying its media restrictions. This effort is backfiring dramatically. Exiled opposition channels are now setting the domestic news agenda. According to The Economist, state minders severely limit foreign journalists’ access.

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Two-Thirds of Exiled Journalists Leave the Profession

  • BAJ
  • Hanna Valynec

Work in exile does not mean a happy end  –  it makes inequalities deeper. Furthermore, two-thirds of journalists in exile leave the profession, while working in editorial offices tend to be more sustainable. Researcher and Professor at Salzburg University, Hanan Badr, discusses the collective experience of journalists in exile.

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Exiled Newsrooms are Finding Hope in New Revenue Strategies

  • Reuters Institute
  • Natalia Zhdanova

The situation for independent media is not getting any easier, and the grant crisis of 2025 has shown just how vulnerable journalists are, especially those working in exile. But many newsrooms are developing innovative ideas to replace some of this lost funding and even developing news products aimed at different audiences in the diaspora or elsewhere.

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Welcome to The Age of Exile

  • Coda
  • Natalia Antelava

Most exile journalism documents symptoms. We’re investigating root causes: how displacement has become central to how power operates in the 21st century, how the same networks that enable resistance also enable surveillance, and why sanctuary is shrinking even as exile accelerates.

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Inside the Newsroom Reporting From Sudan’s Civil War

  • Reuters Institute
  • Maurice Oniang’o

When war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, Basma Shams witnessed independent journalism collapse under the weight of violence and repression. Maurice Oniang’o spoke with Shams, fellow Ayin reporter Eiad Husham and the network’s managing editor, Tom Rhodes, to find out how grassroots journalism persists in one of the most dangerous countries for reporters.

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