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The first jury round of Journalismfund.eu’s Flanders Connects Continents grant programme has taken place. Six applications were allocated a grant.

In view of the grant programme collaboration between our Flemish Fonds Pascal Decroos grant programme and the Flemish Filip Decock foundation, Journalismfund.eu will start offering its expertise to other organisations that want to support investigative journalism through research grants.

You can't change what you don't know. The first step in fighting injustice is revealing it. Help Journalismfund.eu support journalistic research. Help journalists do what they do best. Because good journalism is vital.

Belgian courts have quite often been called upon to judge whether a newspaper article or television program breached particular rights of third parties, such as in defamation cases and cases where the privacy of third parties was at stake. Media lawyer Bart Van Besien gives a summary of the liability of journalists for defamation and breach of privacy.

Journalismfund.eu is very happy to announce the Dutch Adessium Foundation as a new donor. Over a period of three years, from October 2013 to September 2016, Adessium Foundation will support Journalismfund.eu’s cross-border investigative journalism programme as a premium donor.

The next deadline for working grant applications will be Tuesday 22 October 2013, at 11.59 pm. As always, all types of investigative journalism projects for audiovisual or print media are eligible: documentaries, series of articles, books...

‘Journalists should add value.’ I have been hearing that a lot lately. Jeff Jarvis said it on July 3rd, at the third World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC3) in Mechelen, Belgium. ‘Add value.’ Pity. Just adding value could even become fatal, under the present circumstances.

 “There is one thing that an orientation of journalism toward the purely commercial cravings and preferences of media consumers seldom has as a result: journalism.” German journalism professor and media researcher Stephan Weichert has strong views on the workings of the media in today’s market-dominated media landscape in Germany, a landscape the country has in common with many other European countries. Weichert says we should move to a more foundation-based media system. Here is why.

The Russian Federation has denied Ukrainian journalist Oleg Khomenok entry into the country for the next five years.