Focus Area

Networking Journalism

Journalists gathered in Kyiv to learn to report on occupation

kitchen talk: Visual Truth vs Synthetic Photographs

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?

Apply to the “Life Under Occupation” Project

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

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

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

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.