European Journalism Centre

The Spanish fact-checking organisation used its readers’ expertise to turn the tide on COVID-19 misinformation

How Istinomer fought misinformation about the virus during the national election

3 new conferences in 2020 to discuss the latest innovations in journalism

The pandemic arrived just after the outlet’s budgets were downsized. That didn’t stop it growing from its members by 20%.

The Croatian fact-checking site joined forces with other misinformation specialists in Southeastern Europe

Meet the 2020 Google News Initiative Fellows who will join data, product, audience development and fact-checking teams across Europe

The Greek media non-profit challenged the idea that the pandemic has been a great equaliser.

Reader surveys, altered working hours, new membership messaging and cross-border collaborations.

The Irish publication created a neighbourhood noticeboard and focused their efforts on untold stories

JFF launches a pan-European survey into foundations’ approaches to media and journalism funding

The media collective had a hunch that listeners wanted help demystifying the virus. A 31% increase in downloads proved that was right.

The Freelance Journalism Assembly offers free online training and mentorship, unconferences, and an in-person event in 2021.

This French local news site asked its audience how it should report on the pandemic and attracted 20% more paying readers in the process

Hungarian digital news outlet covered the impact of coronavirus on housing, food and labour just as carefully as the death toll.

eldiario.es found itself in financial difficulties when coronavirus hit — until thousands of readers stepped in

When COVID-19 dropped their newsstands sales, the Czech publication set up a subscription push and crowdfunding campaign

Working with citizen presenters and engineers enabled a local radio station in Luxembourg to disseminate COVID-19 news in nine languages

Turkey’s only independent verification platform is fighting the infodemic with TV clips, video explainers and WhatsApp stickers

Even if news organisations survive this crisis, they will enter into a completely different landscape.

Teams of journalists and media organisations in Europe can now apply for the IJ4EU fund

Introducing the latest grantees of our Global Health Journalism Grant Programme for Germany and France

A $3m USD fund to support news organisations and journalists during the COVID-19 crisis

12 grantees, 13 mentors, 6 ambassadors, 6 events, 550 event participants, 2,400 newsletter subscribers… and an evaluation.

The Google News Initiative Fellowship expands to the Czech Republic, Italy and Spain for the first time