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Our Work/Environment Reporting Grants

  • The Pulitzer Center

The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for its initiative focused on climate change and its effects on workers and work. As the world heats up, what jobs and employment sectors, what factory practices, what sorts of manufacturing–from computer chips to batteries to food production to fast-fashion–are threatened or must change

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Impact Report 2025: Good Journalism Needs Allies

  • IMS (International Media Support)

With the closure of USAID resulting in a 25 percent cut to the world’s media development budget, independent media outlets across the world have become more vulnerable to existential threats ranging from bombings to disinformation. It is vital that the rest of the world steps up to support journalists in these trying times.

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Iran Carries Out Arrests, Executions Amid Israel Conflict

  • BBC Persian

Iranian authorities have carried out a wave of arrests and multiple executions of people suspected of links to Israeli intelligence agencies, in the wake of the recent war between the two countries. Analysts view these tactics as part of a broader strategy to silence dissent and intimidate exiled media workers.

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War Spurs Crackdown: Iran-Israel Conflict Fuels Repression

  • Just Security
  • Nema Milaninia

With the announcement of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Iran and Israel (one both governments pledged to uphold conditionally, contingent on the other’s restraint), speculation has begun to shift from whether the conflict would escalate into full-scale regional war to whether this pause might create space for diplomacy, reconstruction, or even domestic reform in Iran.

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Nicaraguan Exiles and the Emotional Value of Objects

  • DW Akademie

For many Nicaraguans fleeing the Ortega-Murillo regime, objects carried into exile hold deep emotional value—links to the past and symbols of hope for return. This is the story of an exiled journalist and his collection of keys. He calls himself *Castro, in homage to an influential high school teacher in Managua who suggested he study journalism.

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Iranians in Exile: Life in Limbo

  • Tagesspiegel
  • Mahtab Qolizadeh

Exiled journalist Mahtab Qolizadeh highlights the struggles of Iranian asylum seekers in Germany, caught between bureaucracy and uncertainty. As the Iran-Israel conflict deepens, many—like political dissident Alborz Zahedi—remain in limbo, hoping for change but facing a system that offers little clarity or relief.

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Nicaragua: Exile the Only Option for Journalists

  • RSF

The systematic and relentless persecution orchestrated by the Ortega-Murillo regime has led to the closure, confiscation, and expulsion of hundreds of independent media outlets and journalists from the country. For many, exile has become the only way to escape censorship, threats, and physical attacks – and to continue reporting.

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Ensuring Journalists in Exile Don’t Go Silent

  • JHR

At JHR, forcibly displaced people are recognized as among the most vulnerable and marginalized. Their stories are often overlooked, their rights de-prioritized. Journalists play a key role in changing that—which is why JHR trains and equips them to report on the realities of displacement and amplify refugees’ voices.

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New Study on Exile, Journalism and Gender in Central America

  • DW Akademie

In a new study from DW Akademie and IPLEX, Central American women journalists in exile explain the challenges they face – and their resilience. Being a journalist in Central America is challenging enough, but the difficulties facing a journalist in exile can be even greater. For women journalists in exile in Central America, their work can be overwhelming.

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Nicaraguan Journalists Ask Spain For Citizenship

  • LatAm Journalism Review (LJR)
  • Katherine Pennacchio

After fleeing persecution by Daniel Ortega’s regime, seven Nicaraguan journalists exiled in Costa Rica have been unable to renew their identification documents: Nicaragua refuses them, and Costa Rica has yet to fully recognize them. They are not locked in a terminal, but they have no homeland.

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Sustaining Journalism in Exile: New Toolkit Released

  • International Journalists’ Network (IJNet)

Once in exile to escape threats and danger, journalists soon face a new set of challenges: how to sustain their careers, communities and reporting from afar. ICFJ’s International Journalists’ Network (IJNet), in collaboration with the Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO), has expanded its Exiled Media Toolkit to include a comprehensive section on viability, produced by ICFJ Knight Fellow José J. Nieves.

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Iran Targets Families to Silence Journalists Abroad

  • OCCRP

The Iranian regime has launched a fresh wave of intimidation against exiled Iranian journalists and their families back home, dissident media workers and human rights advocates claim. Earlier this week, the BBC publicly accused the Iranian government of escalating its long-standing harassment of journalists working for its Persian-language service.

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The Death of Journalism in Azerbaijan

  • OCCRP

A relentless crackdown over the past 18 months has eradicated any semblance of independent media from authoritarian Azerbaijan. But as President Ilham Aliyev casts critical journalists as enemies of the state, they continue to try to hold power to account — from exile, or even from behind bars.

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Don’t Shoot the Journalists: Migrating to Stay Alive

  • Anthem Press
  • Peter Laufer

Born from the University of Oregon’s international symposium on journalism-in-exile, this book gathers the reflections and accounts of journalists who have faced danger, persecution, and threats to their safety due to their commitment to journalistic integrity, while also highlighting the work of advocacy groups supporting press freedom in repressive environment.

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The Evolution and Future of Persian Exile Media

  • Iran1400
  • Vafa Mostaghim

For over four decades, Persian-language media in exile have played an influential, often contentious role in shaping public discourse about Iran. Emerging in response to the silencing of dissent and the monopolization of narratives by the Islamic Republic, these media outlets created a parallel space of dialogue and imagination.

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Fellowships and Grants: Sustaining a Calling in Exile

  • International Journalists’ Network
  • José J. Nieves

Clavel Rangel is a journalist forcibly displaced due to her reporting in Venezuela. She didn’t go into exile with a safety net, a secured job, or a detailed plan. She left with her name, her credibility, and her conviction. As she tells it, her survival has been multifaceted, fragmented, and deeply creative.

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Journalism in Exile From Costa Rica: Lucía Pineda Ubau

  • DW Akademie

Lucía Pineda Ubau is the director of the news channel 100% Noticias and has been living in exile in Costa Rica since 2019. Her homeland, Nicaragua, has been under repressive rule since 2007, when President Daniel Ortega started systematically building an autocratic government, including pressuring political opponents who were increasingly criticizing him.

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Keeping National Languages Alive in the AI Era

  • Reuters Institute
  • Gretel Kahn

Experts from India, Belarus, Nigeria, Mali, Paraguay and the Philippines explain how they are building tools to bridge gaps between newsrooms and audience. Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, newsrooms have been grappling with both the promise and the peril posed by generative AI. But not every publisher is equally prepared to pursue these opportunities.

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