Deadline 26th of April 2011

2011-04-12

ZELLIK - The deadline for grants of the Pascal Decroos Fund is Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 12am lunchtime. All forms of journalism for audiovisual and written media are eligible: documentaries, series, books, ...

The objective of the grants is to enable journalists to execute journalistic projects of special nature and quality, in other words projects that could not be realised within the remit of regular journalism.

The aid takes the form of grants to individual journalists. They must demonstrate that their project is unusually high costly or from a time-consuming nature that the normal support of editors or publishers is not sufficient for the project. The projects must exceed regular reporting, daily journalism or correspondence. The subject or theme must be special or have a different approach or perspective.

More support for investigative journalism needed from policymakers

2012-10-09

A study on investigative journalism in and on Europe was presented at the European Parliament on 9 October 2012. It was requested by the Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control and executed by Margo Smit for the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund.

Our annual report is now available

2020-04-16

BRUSSELS - Journalismfund.eu's annual report is now available. In his preface, managing director Ides Debruyne emphasizes the importance of independent investigative journalism for society. "If we as citizens want to gain insight into the effects of choices made by politicians or companies, someone must create clarity."

Swedish journalists risk years of imprisonment in Ethiopia

2011-10-21

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.