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TAMPERE - A study into online journalistic start-ups and their business models conducted as a joint project of three universities was published recently. By looking at 69 case studies, it analyses the online journalism landscape in nine countries and gives recommendations to media entrepreneurs on how to build a sustainable online platform.

Journalismfund.eu had a record number of applications in the past round: 41 managed to submit in time! We also had a record high rate of money needed and money available: € 314.000 were asked, and we had only € 20.000 to distribute. The jury was strict, the decisions are made. But future applicants can learn a lot from jury members’ comments. The most important ones are compiled here. 

Can investigative journalism be instrumental in the detection of and fight against corruption and fraud with EU funds, and if so, how?

BRUSSELS - A study on investigative journalism in and on Europe was presented at the European Parliament on 9 October 2012. It was requested by the Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control and executed by Margo Smit for the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund.

Slovenian investigative journalists Matej Surc and Blaz Zgaga have won the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2012 for their investigative work on arms dealing in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s that was supported by Journalismfund.eu and led to the bestselling trilogy In the Name of the State.

BRUSSELS - A total of 41 applications were filed for Journalismfund.eu’s September 2012 application round, more than double the average number of applications that were filed in previous rounds.

ANTWERP - The program for the VVOJ European Investigative Journalism Conference 2012 has been published. Journalismfund.eu is partnering with VVOJ to coordinate the conference's cross-border track.

BRUSSELS - Journalismfund.eu has sent out the first of what will be a bimonthly newsletter on issues concerning Journalismfund.eu and its activities and on investigative journalism in general.

BRUSSELS - A voyage of discovery through the European Union to explore the current state of investigative journalism. A search for answers to the question of whether robust, cross-border investigative journalism into fraud, mismanagement or human error in the spending of European money can contribute to improved European governance. During the last six months, this journey became a full-time occupation for investigative journalist Margo Smit and six of her colleagues.