Investigative journalism award to Adrian Mogos

BRUSSELS – 13 / 7 / 2010 – Romanian journalist Adrian Mogos has won the CEI – SEEMO award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism. Mogos is praised for his cross-border stories, among them the Slave Labour Trafficking, which was made possible through a grant from Journalismfund.eu.
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Money to stories all over Europe

BRUSSELS - 5 / 7 / 2010 – Almost € 21.000 have been distributed to five teams of journalists. This is the 3rd round of research grants for cross-border and European research stories. Interest keeps growing.
 
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Not like an old-fashioned journalist

BRUSSELS – 30 / 5 / 2010 – Old and new journalist thinking clash in English crowd-sourcing project. In Birmingham journalists and non-journalists cooperate and the ongoing research is visible before publication. Similar thoughts are surfacing among it-programmers dealing with tasks that usually were taken care of by journalists. Time to take up an inspiring challenge.   
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Follow the money (to a European debate)

BRUSSELS – 5 / 5 / 2010 – One way of achieving a European public sphere could be through pooling journalistic research power and publishing to national audiences by language. One example is the common effort on analysing the latest data of the EU farmsubsidy beneficiaries.  
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Inspiration

Done: Trafficking route covered

BRUSSELS – 14 / 5 / 2010 – Poor people in the Ukraine, slave workers picking asparagus in the Czech Republic, companies in the Netherlands. Three parts of the same trafficking business for cheap labour.  With the most recent publication in the Netherlands the route has been covered from start to end. 

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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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BRUSSELS - 6 / 7 / 2010 -  The next date for a new call for proposals is not set yet.  If you wish to be informed about future calls for proposals please sign up for our newsletter in the left side column.

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Upcoming conferences

BRUSSELS - 12 / 7 / 2010 - 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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