Cross-Border Cooperation
Fighting malign influence of authoritarian regimes beyond borders, our programs enable experience and data exchange between independent journalists across wide geographies
Stories / cross-border
News / cross-border
28 March 2025
Coalition Must Strengthen Independent Media Worldwide
German media organizations are urging their incoming government to boost support for exile media and independent newsrooms amid global press freedom challenges. The appeal to coalition negotiators was signed by ECPMF, n-ost, Reporters Without Borders, and jinn.
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27 March 2025
Global Sources, Joint Forces: Data-Driven, Cross-Border Investigative Journalism
Training program by jinn and the Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI) featuring webinars by investigative and data journalists from Süddeutsche Zeitung, IStories, and Correctiv.
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01 December 2022
Connecting the Dots: Call for Applications for Belarussian and Russian Journalists
Funding programme to establish and expand cross-border cooperation between media workers, investigative journalists, and data professionals from Belarus and Russia, and their German counterparts.
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Projects / cross-border
United Against Disinformation in Russia
Central Asiatrainingscross-border
Innovative Methods Against Propaganda
The project enhances the capacities of exiled journalists through financial support, thematic workshops, networking events, and training sessions—including seminars focused on mental health and resilience. It also encourages cross-border cooperation among investigative journalists, podcasters, fact-checkers, and reporters, laying the groundwork for new joint media initiatives.
Read about projectNovaya Investigative Lab
Russiatrainingscross-border
Training & Fellowship Programme for Data Projects and Cross-Border Collaborations
Novaya Investigative Lab is a training and fellowship programme designed to support journalists from Armenia, Moldova, and Russia in answering these questions—and more. The programme enables participants to publish impactful investigations in collaboration with investigative teams and media outlets from Germany and Eastern Partnership countries.
Read about projectCollaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI)
Germanytrainingscross-border
Resources, Networking, and Methodologies for Independent Media
The CIJI initiative fosters high-quality, ethical, and accountable collaborative and investigative journalism, creating an enabling environment in which established newsrooms can thrive and new media start-ups can emerge and succeed.
Read about projectStrengthening Investigative Journalism
UkraineGermanyinvestigationscross-border
Grants for investigations, reports and other media projects for Ukrainian media in cooperation with German partners.
Read about projectUnited Against Disinformation in Russia
Central Asiatrainingscross-border
Innovative Methods Against Propaganda
The project enhances the capacities of exiled journalists through financial support, thematic workshops, networking events, and training sessions—including seminars focused on mental health and resilience. It also encourages cross-border cooperation among investigative journalists, podcasters, fact-checkers, and reporters, laying the groundwork for new joint media initiatives.
Read about projectNovaya Investigative Lab
Russiatrainingscross-border
Training & Fellowship Programme for Data Projects and Cross-Border Collaborations
Novaya Investigative Lab is a training and fellowship programme designed to support journalists from Armenia, Moldova, and Russia in answering these questions—and more. The programme enables participants to publish impactful investigations in collaboration with investigative teams and media outlets from Germany and Eastern Partnership countries.
Read about projectCollaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI)
Germanytrainingscross-border
Resources, Networking, and Methodologies for Independent Media
The CIJI initiative fosters high-quality, ethical, and accountable collaborative and investigative journalism, creating an enabling environment in which established newsrooms can thrive and new media start-ups can emerge and succeed.
Read about projectStrengthening Investigative Journalism
UkraineGermanyinvestigationscross-border
Grants for investigations, reports and other media projects for Ukrainian media in cooperation with German partners.
Read about projectOther Focus Areas
Capacity Building
We enable media professionals and journalists to test new formats, find audiences, and escape material constraints and censorship through consultancy, funding opportunities, and facilitated networking
Investigative Journalism
Navigating OSINT and other methods for thorough political, economic, and social investigations, our beneficiaries provide the public with hard facts amid disinformation
Trainings
Our network of independent reporting experts delivers programs on legal setup, financial management, fundraising, safety, networking, cross-border collaboration, and journalism training