JX Fund – European Fund for Journalism in Exile

We invite two journalists from countries with restricted press and information freedoms to Berlin for a six-month stay. During their time in Berlin, the media professionals can take a break from their daily responsibilities, recover from difficult working conditions, and broaden their personal and professional horizons. At the end of the six months, the fellows return to their home countries with renewed energy and new perspectives to continue their journalistic work.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Germany will once again invite journalists from countries with restricted freedom of press and information to Berlin for our annual fellowship program. Fellows will be able to take time off from their daily obligations to recover from their difficult working conditions. They will learn new skills to better protect themselves by taking part in a comprehensive safety training program.

The Innovative tools and business models action is aimed at encouraging the development and/or the spread of innovative tools and business models to improve the visibility, availability, audience and diversity of European works in the digital age and/or the competitiveness and/or the greening process of the European audiovisual industry.

The Environmental Investigative Journalism programme supports cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets investigating illegal, unreported, and unregulated environmental issues linked to European interests, both within and beyond Europe.

This grant programme supports activities and services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development to build the capacities of environmental investigative journalists.

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.

The European Union Creative Europe programme (cross-sectoral strand) has launched the 6th yearly call for cross-border collaborative proposals between news media organisations focusing on innovative business models and/or journalistic projects across Europe. The competition is open to organisations from Georgia and Ukraine.

In response to growing threats against media professionals, EMIF has launched the SAFE Initiative to provide urgent support and resources that protect the safety and resilience of those fighting disinformation and defending democratic dialogue.

The European Commission is launching a new call as part of its Creative Europe Programme for innovative cross-border media literacy projects. Applications will be accepted from 23 October 2025 until 11 March 2026. The call for proposals has been launched under the cross-sectoral strand of the Creative Europe Programme, which is open to Georgia and Ukraine.

The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) recognises that physical threats to the life, safety, wellbeing, and security of journalists and media organisations remain a serious concern in many European countries. The recent actions of some governments in passing laws that restrict the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media suggest that there is a need for advocacy against such laws or to improve existing legislation.

ECPMF’s Journalists-in-Residence (JiR) programme offers temporary shelter for journalists facing harassment and intimidation as a direct result of their work. Journalists get the chance to rest and recuperate in a safe and discreet place, and also to continue their investigative work at their own pace and use their time in Leipzig for networking and finding solidarity.

“A blogger and journalist from Russia. Left the country due to persecution for anti-war articles. Received political asylum in France. I write about my new life.”

Follow the Money seeks to collaborate with freelance and media-outlet journalists to produce paid, high-impact investigative stories that expose wrongdoing and hold powerful actors accountable. Their focus includes abuses of power across politics, finance, media, and corporate sectors, with topics ranging from EU corruption and greenwashing to hidden assets of oligarchs.

Since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, almost every independent journalist has been exiled from Russia. For more than three years, journalists in exile have tried to continue their work from afar in a concerted effort to preserve the service of truth. Ten days ago, the Kremlin added Kostyuchenko to its list of foreign agents.

Ivan Kolpakov is the editor-in-chief at Meduza, the largest independent media outlet focusing on Russia. The organization has been in exile since Kolpakov co-founded the organization in 2014 with Galina Timchenko. DW Akademie spoke to the journalist and editor about what it is like to spend more than a decade reporting on his country from abroad.

A mission can mean many things: a diplomatic post, a military assignment, or spreading the gospel to convert nonbelievers. But journalist Ekaterina Fomina also calls her work a mission. The independent Russian reporter fled to Berlin shortly after Vladimir Putin escalated his war in February 2022. Since then, she has been reporting on Russia and Ukraine from exile.

Omidyar Network’s Tech Journalism Fund will provide project funding from $5,000 to $25,000 to support reporting costs for journalists working on a singular, time and resource intensive reporting project.

In order to support and guide these journalists and media in exile, CFI, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), SINGA and Maison des Journalistes (MDJ) are launching the Voices in Exile project, supported by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, with the purpose of making France one of the main host countries for journalists in exile.