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7 Mar

Nominations open for IJ4EU Impact Award 2024

The IJ4EU fund has opened nominations for its annual Impact Award celebrating the best of European cross-border investigative journalism.

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25 Feb

Two years of war: Support for journalists in Ukraine

Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has shaken Europe and beyond. The war has led to a humanitarian catastrophe for people on the ground, and also included numerous deliberate attacks on journalists in an attempt to silence their vital reporting.

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8 Jan

IJ4EU rebooted: €2M in grants for cross-border journalism in Europe

The Investigative Journalism for Europe fund is back with a new and improved programme of support for watchdog reporting.

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20 Dec

“Journalism is a job for those who are brave enough to bear the consequences”

Armağan Kabaklı, a devoted local journalist from Turkey committed to covering environmental and policy issues, joined ECPMF’s Journalists-in-Residence Programme, after the devastating earthquakes on 6 February 2023 that destroyed 11 cities and when his investigative reporting triggered a criminal case.

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12 Jun

UNCOVERED Conference 2023

We are excited to announce that the latest instalment of the IJ4EU UNCOVERED Conference will take place this year from 12-13 October 2023!

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15 May

ECPMF and Amal, Berlin! Launch Workshops for Journalists in Exile in Germany

Within the framework of our ongoing “Opportunities in Exile” programme, ECPMF has coordinated a series of German language workshops for journalists and media workers in exile in Germany, together with Amal, Berlin!.

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7 Apr

2023 IJ4EU Impact Award Winner: Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies

This investigation led by Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch-based non-profit that works with newsrooms across Europe, exposes the mysterious men in masks who beat refugees at Europe’s borders.

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6 Apr

2023 IJ4EU Impact Award Winner: The Devils Is in the Data

This undercover investigation by a group of freelancers, Andy Brown, Philippe Auclair, Steve Menary, and Jack Kerr, in four countries reveals how live data fed to the sports betting industry can create a fertile ground for match-fixing.

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5 Apr

2023 IJ4EU Impact Award Winner: The Xinjiang Police Files

In recent years, the Chinese state has allegedly locked away a million Uyghurs in internment camps. The Xinjian Police Files, winner of a 2023 IJ4EU Impact Award, attaches names and faces to this brutal system, providing an unprecedented look behind the veil of secrecy.

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4 Apr

2023 IJ4EU Impact Award Honourable Mention: Peat Pressure

Honourable mention at the 2023 Impact Award Ceremony went to “Peat Pressure, an investigation by Irish investigative organisation Noteworthy that exposes a system of unregulated peat extraction and how two multi-million-euro horticultural peat companies have extracted it without consent and in breach of EU environmental law.

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