Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI)
CIJI provides resources and networking to support investigative journalism across established and emerging media organizations. Operating across the EU and neighboring regions (2023-2025), CIJI serves journalists including displaced professionals from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
About the program
The Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI) empowers independent media outlets and individual journalists by providing essential resources, innovative networking infrastructure, and standards-based methodologies. The 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. Currently in its second edition (2023–2025), CIJI supports journalists across the European Union, EU candidate countries, and journalists originally from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia who now legally reside in the EU due to the war in Ukraine or media repression in their home countries.
The programme is implemented through a strong partnership between Tactical Tech (TT), Free Press Unlimited (FPU), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Fundacja Reporterów (FR), OBC Transeuropa (OBCT), and Delfi, working together to build a network-based initiative that promotes ethical standards in journalism. CIJI offers targeted training, capacity-building opportunities, and a collaborative space for peer exchange and support. This project is co-funded by the European Union.
Cross-Border Collaboration in and beyond Media Hub in Berlin
Jinn acts as one of three regional media hubs within CIJI, offering its platform and resources to Berlin-based journalists and EU based members of Jinn’s investigative network. Through CIJI, Jinn provides access to fellowships, mentoring, training sessions, and strengthens media collaboration. In 2025, Jinn’s training programme highlights methodologies and recent cases in cross-border investigative reporting, featuring leading data researchers and investigative teams from Süddeutsche Zeitung, iStories, and Correctiv.