"For the past few years, The Guardian newspaper in Britain has been running its newsroom with a strong commitment to something called “open journalism.” It means, mainly, that reporters keep readers informed at every step along the way – usually over Twitter – as they develop stories."

 While the broadband age is enabling an information and communications renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical information about local issues. This report, delivered by the American FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in 2011, makes recommendations on how the information needs of communities can be met in a broadband world.

In February 2010 the Carnegie UK Trust appointed Blair Jenkins as a ‘Carnegie Fellow’ to investigate how better news media can be delivered in the digital age. The results of Jenkins' investigation have now been published in a sharp report: 'Better Journalism in the Digital Age'.

Journalist Chrys Wu collected all the presentations, links and tools from NICAR12 and published them on her blog Ricochet.

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism published an extensive article on its website on how newspapers are faring trying to build digital revenue. 

Ghanaian journalists have been urged to take advantage of the Programme for African Investigative Reporting (PAIR), to access funds to undertake investigative journalism in diverse areas for the benefit of society.

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

Guardian reporter Nick Davies received the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism for a series of stories that helped expose the depth of phone hacking conducted by the News of the World.

The Data Journalism Awards (DJA) is the first international contest recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide.

Read the free handbook for all journalists who want to master the art of interrogating and questioning numbers competently. Being able to work with figures and investigate numbers is not a new form of journalism but a skill that all journalists can acquire.

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

 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.

Manuel concret de récit journalistique, Journalisme narratif en pratique conduit à la maîtrise des techniques les plus élaborées de recherche, collecte et restitution vibrante d’une information en mouvement. 

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.

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.

The European Parliament (The Committee on Budgetary Control) has assigned the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund to conduct an investigation on ‘Deterrence of fraud with EU-Funds through investigative journalism in EU-27’. The team of Pascal Decroos Fund was granted the study through an open tender held in November 2011.

Slovenian Journalists Blaz Zgaga and Matej Surc received death threats after having reported about illegal arms trade during the Balkan wars.

Today at IDFA a major new partnership was announced at a panel dedicated to the discussion of new funding. The Bertha Foundation is investing in BRITDOC's future, joining the Board of Directors and launching two new funds worth £1.5 million to filmmakers over the next three years. At the outset, Steve James’s award-winning The Interrupters and Soniya Kirpalani’s We The People are the first projects to receive support.

While governments and citizens of Eastern Europe were struggling with the recent financial crisis and trying to borrow money from international financial institutions, billions of euros circulated in the region in an illegal, parallel system that enriched organized crime figures and corrupt politicians. 

During the Southeast Europe Media Forum in Belgrade yesterday and today a team supported by Journalismfund.eu received a special investigative journalism diploma.

Tracking arms smugglers is a difficult task, which cannot be done without cross-border cooperation with well informed and trusted journalists from different countries. That's what a Slovene team accomplished successfully. They found colleagues in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Journalists from four other countries participated in wide and deep investigation.

Praktiker für Praktiker. Das ist die Idee hinter investigativ.ch, dem Recherche-Netzwerk der Schweizer Journalistinnen und Journalisten. Darum haben wir diese Website zum Kompetenzzentrum für Recherche aufgebaut.

AfriCOG invites qualified journalists to apply for the Investigative Journalism Fellowship in the areas of anti-corruption and good governance.

Two Swedish journalists are accused by the Ethiopian authorities of aiding and cooperating with "terrorist organisations". They were apprehended while doing their work in the Ogaden region, where separatist movements are involved in an armed struggle with the central governement in Addis Abeba. MO* participated in the opening session of a high profile court case.

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”.

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.

Follow Live via Mediakritiek.be GIJC 2011 is organised by Scoop in close cooperation with Ukrainian centres for investigative reporting. 

 A new RISJ report by Nic Newman is now available online after its highly popular launch on Tuesday 4th October at the BBC Council Chamber.