Focus Area

Foreign Reporting

Op-Eds: What do they look like?

Open call: "Reporting Change" Research Trip to Georgia October 2024

Research Award Eastern Europe

Started in 2017, ongoing
Locations: Armenia, Balkans, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine

news & upcoming events

Competing Narratives workshop - when journalists are knowledge multipliers

Competing Narratives meet in Tbilisi

Competing narratives meet in Yerevan

© Media Initiatives Center

Call for Application: Competing Narratives

Related projects

Show all Projects

Research Award Eastern Europe

Started in 2017, ongoing
Locations: Armenia, Balkans, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine

Reporting Change: Research Trip to Georgia 2024

2024
Location: Georgia

Competing Narratives

2023-2024
Locations: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey, Ukraine

Reporters in the Field

2015-2022
Locations: Ukraine, Moldova, Balkans, France, Turkey, Italy, Poland

Network members in related projects

Check out all the participating journalists listed here. This is what brings them together.

See all network members

Jelena Prtoric

Journalist, Freelance/Arena for Journalism in Europe

Zagreb/Berlin, Croatia

Piotr Drabik

Staff Journalist, Fakt

Warsaw, Poland

Karin Finkenzeller

Reporter, Freelance

München, Germany

Franka Hummels

Journalist, Freelance

Utrecht, Netherlands

Luise Glum

Freelance Correspondent, Luise Glum

Yerevan, Armenia

Luke Johnson

Journalist, Freelance

Aleksander Palikot

Correspondent, RFE/RL

Kyiv, Ukraine

Natálie Zehnalová

Network Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Hannes Jung

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Lara Rindt

Project Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

catalin prisacariu

investigative journalist, Freelance

Bucharest, Romania

Päivi Leino

Journalist, YLE

Helsinki, Finland

Nathalie Bertrams

Photographer/Journalist, Freelance

Brussels, Belgium

Serbeze Haxhiaj

Journalist/ Editor, RTK

Pristina, Kosovo

Sonja Ernst

Journalist, Freelance

Köln, Germany

Raluca Besliu

Independent Journalist

Belgium

Tugba Tekerek

euro|topics social media editor Turkish, Freelance

Istanbul, Turkey

Maxim Edwards

Journalist, Bloomberg

Warsaw, Poland

György Folk

Senior Editor, EUrologus / HVG

Brussels, Belgium

Mila Corlateanu

Project Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Christian Jakob

Reporter, taz, die tageszeitung

Berlin, Germany

Staffan Dahllöf

Reporter, Freelance

Kopenhagen, Denmark

Simone Brunner

Staff Journalist, DIE ZEIT

Vienna, Austria

Anneke Hudalla

Project Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Jacopo Pasotti

Photojournalist, self employed

Basel, Switzerland

Nino Apakidze

Journalist, GIPA / Freelance Journalist

Tbilisi, Georgia

Marianna Prysiazhniuk

Journalist, researcher, analyst, Glavcom, StopFake

Kyiv, Ukraine

Gita Elibekyan

Foreign Correspondent, editor, Public Radio of Armenia, ALIQ MEDIA

Tbilisi, Georgia

Tatevik Harutyunyan

journalist, Aravot.am

Yerevan, Armenia

Tamta Natchkebia

Journalist/Editor, dev.ge; publika.ge

Tbilisi, Georgia

Nina Kheladze

editor in chief, TOK TV

Tbilisi, Georgia

Johanna Treblin

Staff Journalist, Neues Deutschland

Berlin, Germany

Agata Szymanska-Medina

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Maxim Sarychau

Photographer

Belarus

Evghenii Ceban

Correspondent, newsmaker.md

Chisinau, Moldova

Madalin Necsutu

RO correspondent in MD, tvrmoldova.md

Chisinau, Moldova

Felicia Nedzelschi

Journalist, Freelancer

Chişinău, Moldova

Silviu Mihai

Freelancer

Berlin, Germany

More focus areas

We are always reacting to current issues but there are also some topics which have been recurrent themes in our work. Here are a few.

Journalism in Ukraine

Journalists in Ukraine face many challenges exacerbated by the war: safety risks, source validation, financial hurdles, and access. We support them with resources, platforms for knowledge transfer, and strong international networks.

Networking Journalism

Amid growing political and economic pressures, journalists face multiple obstacles in showing us a complex world. Our media conferences, research trips and events provide spaces where we connect, share insights, and support each other.

Climate Journalism

The climate crisis impacts every part of life - as does the transformation needed to address it. We provide access to global climate discourse and support journalists in integrating this crucial topic into their daily reporting.

Documentary Photography

Images convey the diverse realities of our societies with an emotional immediacy that words can’t match. We connect photographers across the continent to show a Europe beyond our information bubbles.

Exile & Decolonisation

Deeply rooted power structures and authoritarian aggression fuel repression, conflict and forced migration. We create safe spaces allowing journalists in exile and elsewhere to reflect and deconstruct colonial narratives.

Feminism & LGBTIQ+

Gender and sexuality are weaponized in public discourse, distorting perceptions and deepening divides. We help journalists uncover authentic narratives and boost diverse voices in the media through a queer feminist lens.

European Public Spheres

National issues dominate the medias’ agenda. But Europe’s differences and perspectives can only be understood if we broaden the focus: We connect newsrooms and facilitate cooperation across the continent.

Investigative Journalism

In our interconnected world, investigative journalism has to transcend borders. We connect the dots on local issues that resonate globally and equip journalists with the skills to investigate and uncover cross-border stories.

(Dis)Information

Disinformation poisons public discourse and replaces democratic debate with polarization. With our journalistic formats we explore answers to this global challenge: sensitive to our own biases, but firm in our commitment to fact-based information and science.