LONDON - The PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award is an international documentary development fund of up to €5000 per film. The Awards are designed to support the development of your documentary film idea and give you resources to shoot and edit your trailer.

WASHINGTON/GENEVA - In light of ongoing developments related to the release of diplomatic cables by the organization Wikileaks, and the publication of information contained in those cables by mainstream news organizations, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression see fit to recall a number of international legal principles. The rapporteurs call upon States and other relevant actors to keep these principles in mind when responding to the aforementioned developments  

BRUSSELS - EYP and the Council of Europe are calling on young journalists from across Europe to enter the recently launched second Council of Europe Youth Media Award. The theme of the competition is media freedom and the competition kicked off on 1 March with a deadline of 1 August. 

BRUSSELS - Media freedom is threatened in most European countries, warns the Organisation for Co-operation and Security in Europe, highlighting incidences in several of its member states including EU countries France, Italy and Greece.

BRUSSELS — An internal report by the EU anti-fraud office, Olaf, has shed light on how close the bureau came to hunting down the sources of a German investigative journalist, in a case with implications for press freedom in the EU capital.

BRUSSELS - The documentary movie project  ‘Toxic Europe’ investigates the trafficking of hazardous waste within Europe. The production team seeks support via co-producers and crowdfunding.

AMSTERDAM - The right of journalists to protect their sources will be strengthened throughout Europe, after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights Tuesday. In a ruling strongly reaffirming the "vital importance" protection of sources plays to press freedom, the court overturned a ruling that had compelled Dutch journalists to reveal the names of participants in illegal car races.

BRUSSELS - An innovative training series at the Institute for European Studies: "Reporting on the EU? Issues and Impact" in collaboration with the Pascal Decroos Fund. 

Columbia, MO - IRE has announced the winners of the 2010 IRE Awards. The Pascal Decroos Fund is very proud to announce that their colleague, Brigitte Alfter, director of Journalismfund.eu, is nominated. A complete list of winners (including judges' comments) and finalists can be found here. 

 MADRID - Access Info Europe this week called for signatures for an open letter to Members of the European Parliament as part of its campaign to stop narrowing of the EU's rules on access to documents, Regulation 1049/2001.

On Wednesday 19 October, four European journalists were awarded the European Parliament Prize for Journalism 2011. This prize is for having contributed to developing, “a greater understanding of the EU”.

Interview with Mark Schapiro, speaker at European Investigative Journalism Conference, Brussels

(BRUSSELS, 10/10/2008) "Hold the power and use it to reveal things, ...  the power is increasingly in Brussels, and that is why this conference is extremely important." - says Mark Schapiro author of the book Exposed - The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power. On the VVOJ Conference he will talk about the European Union's leading role in global economy and political power. He also shares useful tricks how to use the EU as a way of investigating international stories.

(NEW YORK, 09/12/2008) -- Newspapers that so often tell people what's happening are now facing the question of what will happen to them. In the teeth of the current recession, more and more companies in the already troubled industry have been forced to cut staff and shrink the size of their publications. (Source: npr) 

KIEV/WASHINGTON - The awards honor the slain Wall St. Journal reporter and celebrate the best in cross-border investigative reporting. This year’s biennial competition attracted 70 entries from 30 countries. An international panel of five judges selected seven finalists, from which they chose one U.S. winner, one international winner, and a Special Citation.

NY USA - The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and there is a pleasant surprise among the winners.

The Open Society Foundations has granted € 324.000 to Journalismfund.eu and its sister projects under the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund for the coming two years.

In the latest call for proposals 13 applications have been submitted asking for almost € 90.000. Journalismfund.eu has € 20.000 to distribute in this round.

Julian Assange has been a remarkable source for mainstream media. So why has he been so ill-treated in return? There are many accusations levelled at him and his organisation, and whatever their bases, none of them justifies the reactions. And this hurts journalism as a whole.

The Finkelstein inquiry into the media and media regulation flags a future need for government to fund journalists' education.

LONDON - The Bevins Prize, established to recognise outstanding achievement in investigative journalism, has opened for entries for its 2010 award.

BRUSSELS - 1,1 million euro to investigative journalism research grants! The European Parliament allocated the money for a pilot project, the call for proposals is out, and the news have stirred a debate in Brussels. Even if that was the only effect, the initiative by the EP would have been worth the while.

VIENNA — The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is pleased to announce the 2010 Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe. Sponsored by Dr. Erhard Busek - Jean Monet Professor ad personam, President of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI), Former Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and President of the European Forum Alpbach - the EUR 3,000 award will be presented to a journalist, editor, media executive, media expert, writer or journalism trainer in South Eastern Europe, who has promoted better understanding amongst peoples in the region and worked towards ending minority-related problems, ethnic division, racism, xenophobia, or who has helped in any other form to foster understanding in South East Europe. 

Do you have a European story that goes across borders, and do you need a bit of extra support to carry it out? Then maybe Journalismfund.eu can help you with a research grant.  

BELGRADE — Each year ten journalists are chosen to receive funding and professional support to research and report on a topic of regional and European importance.

The Good Pitch Europe 2012 is coming to London in June. Call for Entries now open until Wednesday 1st February, 4pm UK time.