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Did you miss the Dataharvest Festival? Have a look here

14 / MAY / 2012 - From the 6th till the 8th of May 2012 the European Data Harvest Conference brought together the cream of European data journalism in Brussels. If you missed it this time, read the below report. And make sure to join next year from the 9th to the 11th of May 2013.
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Fresh mapping of non-profit Investigative Journalism in Europe

26 / MARCH / 2012 - For all the progress investigative journalism in Europe has made in the past decade, the amount of academic research on the topic has remained discomfortingly small. One of the first to turn the tide is Florentine Guia Baggi, who explored the matter and documented it in her thesis Non-profit Investigative Journalism in Europe: Motives, Organisations and Practices.
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5th round of grants are hard work

8th / FEBRUARY / 2012 - The 5^th round of distributing research grants to journalists in Europe has turned out to be hard work. 16 journalists applied, and 14 of them managed to fulfil the criteria, which only a few of them fulfilled upon application. Still the jury decided not to grant any money yet. Instead the jury decided to request more preparations from six applying teams.

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farmsubsidy.org under the wings of journalismfund.eu

From 12 December 2011, day to day responsibility for the core activities of the farmsubsidy.org project will transfer from EU Transparency, based in the UK, to the European Fund for Investigative Journalism, a project of the Pascal Decroos Fund, a foundation based in Belgium. The project will benefit from financial support from the Open Society Foundation worth €78,000 over two years.
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Cover Up Unveiled

19 / APRIL / 2012 – The final volume of the trilogy In the Name of the State was published on 19 April 2012. Entitled ‘Prikrivanje’, Cover-up, it deals with the abuse of political and legal power of leading Slovene politicians around the time when the country gained its independence.
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Recommended by EFIJ

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[Sans Serif] Good news: ‘Media sector is a sunrise sector’
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Must Reads for May 18th
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[Jon Slattery] Telegraph: 'Murdoch's UK papers in trust plan'
18 May - 23:00 | J-blogs

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About us

About the European Fund for Investigative Journalism

The aim of the European Fund for Investigative Journalism is to promote quality journalism in Europe by giving journalists the chance to carry out journalistic research projects. The Fund - Journalismfund.eu - is firmly rooted in the investigative journalism community. It's board consists of representatives from organisations furthering research journalism and of estimated individuals. Journalismfund.eu raises and redistributes funds according to the principles of full transparency and absolute editorial independence. The fund is a project of the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fond, but will after an inception phase be turned into an independent non-profit entity.
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Next call for applications

JANUARY 2012 - The next deadline for applications is not fixed yet. If you want to be alerted about the next round, please sign up for our newsletter.

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Upcoming conferences

DECEMBER 2011 - Investigative journalism associations throughout Europe offer their members annual conferences aswell as often also gatherings in between. Please find here a selection of upcoming events.
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