JX Fund – European Fund for Journalism in Exile

In Stanford’s Spring 2023 Foreign Correspondence Class, students delve into interviews with exiled journalists, shedding light on their experiences and uncertain paths back, if any.

Authoritarianism forces journalists into exile; hybrid media, led by exiled and local reporters, faces challenges like safety risks, funding, and reaching audiences back home.

In this interview, Nicaraguan editor Carlos F. Chamorro delves into the challenges of press freedom and journalism from exile in anticipation of the 2023 Reuters Memorial Lecture.

In December 2022 exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar revealed that he had been added to the so-called terrorist “gray list”, a database published by the Turkish Interior Ministry, that identifies alleged terrorists and offers rewards for their capture. CPJ has identified at least 14 other members of the press included on the Interior Ministry’s gray list.

Many refugee journalists from Russia and Belarus, chroniclers of current events, would like to work from Berlin. But Germany makes it difficult for them, according to the authors.

Abraham Jimenez Enoa, once part of Cuba’s political elite, turned independent journalist, defying his family’s legacy. His choice led to a government: leave or face imprisonment.

All texts by and about exiled journalists: Exiled journalists write regularly in the Tagesspiegel, including the award-winning project #jetztschreibenwir (2016–2019) and the series Voices of Exile.

Shohret Hoshur is an Uyghur-American journalist, who works for Radio Free Asia from exile. In an interview with Reuters Institute he explains why he envies Ukrainians and how he keeps reporting on his community from afar.

Closed doors in German media, family at risk: Press freedom is increasingly restricted in Afghanistan, and also journalists in Belarus find freedom to report only from abroad.

In Hounded: African Journalists in Exile, 16 African journalists share accounts of how their unrelenting conviction to tell the truth forced them to flee their homelands

Non-profits are urging Canada to facilitate refuge for journalists in danger, but can the industry help them get back to work?

An interview with Taha Siddiqui, who was forced to flee to France after a failed abduction attempt, brings to the fore how freedom of expression and speech is being curtailed in newsrooms across South Asia.