Focus Area

Networking Journalism

Journalists gathered in Kyiv to learn to report on occupation

Cancelled: kitchen talk goes picnic: Does cross-border journalistic collaboration contribute to a European public sphere (or not)?

Life Under Occupation

Started in 2025, ongoing
Location: Ukraine

news & upcoming events

After the kitchen talk: Bosnian media and the genocide – 30 years after

After the kitchen talk: „Frieden verhandeln im Krieg“

After the kitchen talk: Nuclear, again?

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Reporting Together: German and Ukrainian journalists formed cross-border teams

kitchen talk: Bosnian media and the genocide – 30 years after

kitchen talk: „Frieden verhandeln im Krieg“ (book presentation and discussion in German)

kitchen talk: Nuclear, again? Political narratives on the future of energy supply in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia

kitchen talk goes Kino Krokodil: Lines of conflict in a polarised Hungary

kitchen talk: "War Correspondent": A Czech radio reporter in Ukraine

kitchen talk: Press freedom under pressure in Azerbaijan

kitchen talk: Moldova between presidential and parliamentary elections

kitchen talk: Georgia after the elections

Open Call: "Reporting Together: German-Ukrainian Journalist Exchange"

Nov 12–15 2024

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

Film screening "We're All Going to Die" — A mostly funny documentary by Ben Knight

Mic Check: Podcasting for Journalists with Libo/Libo

Mic Check: Podcasting for Journalists with X3

Decolonizing (German) Journalism: Writing about postsocialist migration

Decolonizing (Russian) Journalism: Challenges, Strategies and Perspectives

n-ost Network Party

Mic Check: Podcasting for Journalists with the Eurasian Climate Brief

Film screening "The Hamlet Syndrome"

Kitchen Talk with Yevgenia Belorusets

Related projects

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Life Under Occupation

Started in 2025, ongoing
Location: Ukraine

n-ost kitchen talks

Started in 2024, ongoing
Location: Germany

n-ost media hub

Started in 2023, ongoing
Location: Germany

Reporting Change: Research Trip to Georgia 2024

2024
Location: Georgia

The Circle

2022-2024
Locations: Georgia, Portugal, France, Lithuania, Sweden, Romania, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Media Conference 2022: Beyond the Front Pages

2022
Locations: Poland, Ukraine

Media Conference 2019: Off the Beaten Track!

2019
Location: Moldova

Media conference 2018: Face it!

2018
Location: Poland

Media conference 2017: Inside our Blind Spots

2017
Location: Ukraine

Reporting Together: German-Ukrainian Journalist Exchange

2024
Locations: Germany, Ukraine

Network members in related projects

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

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Piotr Drabik

Staff Journalist, Fakt

Warsaw, Poland

Pavel Bykouski

Senior Analyst, Media IQ, Press Club Belarus

Warszawa, Poland

Aleksandar Miladinović

Reporter, BBC World Service Serbian

Berlin, Germany

Rita Cruz

Investigative journalist, Freelancer

Gothenburg, Sweden

Nataliia Patrikieieva

Journalist, Freelance

Kyiv, Ukraine

Anastasiia Bereza

Journalist and founder, Stryi

Kyiv, Ukraine

Franka Hummels

Journalist, Freelance

Utrecht, Netherlands

Karin Finkenzeller

Reporter, Freelance

München, Germany

Jacqueline Goebel

Investigative Reporter, Freelance

Cologne, Germany

Serhii Barbu-Valchyshyn

Tv host, journalist, Channel 5

Kyiv, Ukraine

Anastasiia Rudenko

Editor-in-chief, Eastern Variant

Kyiv, Ukraine

Yuliana Skibitska

Journalist, media trainer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Luise Glum

Freelance Correspondent, Luise Glum

Yerevan, Armenia

György Folk

Senior Editor, EUrologus / HVG

Brussels, Belgium

Mitya Churikov

Autor, rbb

Berlin, Germany

Caleb Larson

Journalist, Freelance

Johanna Treblin

Staff Journalist, Neues Deutschland

Berlin, Germany

Tugba Tekerek

euro|topics social media editor Turkish, Freelance

Istanbul, Turkey

Maxim Sarychau

Photographer

Belarus

Evgeniy Maloletka

Photographer

Ukraine

Emile Ducke

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Magdalena Kicińska

Editor in Chief, Pismo

Warsaw

Annette Streicher

Freelance Journalist, ZDF

Berlin, Germany

Martin Fejer

Photographer, Journalist, est&ost photography

Berlin, Germany

Florian Bachmeier

Photographer

La Lastra de Castro, Spain

Stefan Schocher

Freelance Journalist

Wien, Austria

Jan Opielka

Freelance Journalist

Gliwice, Poland

Ingrid Brekke

Journalist, Aftenposten

Oslo, Norway

Mandy Ganske-Zapf

Freelance Journalist

Magdeburg, Germany

Renate Zöller

Kulturkorrespondenz, Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa e.V.

Hürth, Germany

Melanie Longerich

Journalist, Deutschlandfunk

Köln, Germany

Andreas Herrmann

Journalist / Medienberater

Herrnhut, Germany

Ulrike Gruska

Press Officer, Reporter ohne Grenzen

Berlin, Germany

Oliver Bilger

Journalist at Welt am Sonntag, WELT AM SONNTAG

Berlin, Germany

Simone Brunner

Staff Journalist, DIE ZEIT

Vienna, Austria

Cornelia Kästner- Meyer

Senior Communication Officer, LWF

Meyrin, Switzerland, Switzerland

Natalia Sergheev

Journalist, RFE/RL

Chisinau, Moldova

Ulrike Butmaloiu

IDEM - Institute for Democracy, Media and Cultural Exchange

Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Christ

Civil Expert, Cyber Innovation Hub der Bundeswehr

Berlin, Germany

Inga Pylypchuk

Journalist, Freelance

Berlin, Germany

Cassiano Gobbet

Journalist

Strasbourg, France

Denis Trubetskoy

Freelance Journalist

Kyiv, Ukraine

Kaja Puto

Freelance Journalist

Sosnowiec, Poland

Anita Back

Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Daria Sukharchuk

Health Reporter, APM Health Europe

Berlin, Germany

Philipp Fritz

Correspondent, Die Welt

Berlin and Warsaw, Germany

Aigerim Toleukhanova

Freelance Journalist

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Judith Langowski

Newsletter Editor, Reuters

Berlin, Germany

Nancy Waldmann

Journalist, Märkische Onlinezeitung

Franfurt Oder, Germany

Edda Schlager

Correspondent Centra/Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Germany Trade & Invest

Berlin, Germany

Markus Nowak

Journalist, Kulturkorrespondenz östliches Europa

Berlin/Vilnius

Marco Fieber

Executive Director, Libereco

München, Germany

Lina Verschwele

Foreign Desk, Der Spiegel

Berlin, Germany

Rūta Vimba

Project Manager

Berlin, Germany

Othmara Glas

Journalist, FAZ

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Clemens Schöll

Journalist, Clean Energy Wire

Berlin, Germany

Maxim Edwards

Journalist, Bloomberg

Warsaw, Poland

Ana Gherciu

Editor-in-chief, moldova.org

Chisinau, Moldova

Johann Stephanowitz

Journalist, Zeit Online

Berlin, Germany, Germany

Olivia Kortas

Freelance Journalist

Warsaw, Poland

Frauke Seebass

Michalina Kowol

Freelance Journalist, Michalina Kowol

Warsaw, Poland

Isabelle Daniel

Journalist, AFP

Berlin, Germany

Dirk Auer

Freelance Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Krsto Lazarevic

Journalist, Ballaballa-Balkan

Berlin, Germany

Peggy Lohse

Freelance Journalist

Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Natálie Zehnalová

Network Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Yelizaveta Landenberger

Journalist and translator, HU Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Robert Putzbach

Journalist, FAZ

Berlin, Germany

Anastasia Rodi

Journalist, taz

Berlin, Germany

Iryna Ponedelnik

Project Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Aleksander Palikot

Correspondent, RFE/RL

Kyiv, Ukraine

Jerko Bakotin

Staff Journalist, Novosti

Zagreb, Croatia

Elisabeth Bauer

Freelance Journalist, HU / freelance

Berlin, Germany

Zoltán Sipos

Journalist, Átlátszó Erdély

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Tamina Kutscher

Freelance Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Lara Rindt

Project Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Luke Johnson

Journalist, Freelance

Marc Bräutigam

Network Manager, Social Media Editor, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Oksana Mamchenkova

Project Coordinator, n-ost

Kyiv, Ukraine

Kornélia Kiss

Journalist, Freelance

Hungary

Lika Zakashvili

Editor-in-Chief, Publika

Tbilisi, Georgia

Ani Arveladze

Investigative journalist, Euronews Georgia

Georgia

Mila Corlateanu

Project Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Stefan Günther

Photo Editor, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Zurich, Switzerland

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.

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.

Foreign Reporting

The world fades away, when correspondents have to cover entire continents, and newsrooms lack the resources to report even on neighboring countries. Through our reporting we overcome biases and fill the blind spots on our mental maps.

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.