Supported projects

NAIROBI - Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, has been used to attract millions of Kenyans to fake companies who are after their personal information. Kenyan journalist Odanga Madung exposed the ...

BUJUMBURA - The research by Jeroen Janssen, awarded graphic novelist, and journalist Hilde Baele on Mzee Jérôme Sebasoni, who became Che Guevara's guide as a young Inyenzi rebel, took no ...

MERKSPLAS - March 2020. Corona shuts down Belgium. Everyone has to stay inside. Door closed, one hour a day outside. A story that sounds familiar to the residents of Merksplas prison.

DEIR AL-HAJARI - The first bomb hit the village of Deir al-Hajar in north-western Yemen at around 3 am on 8 October 2016. The airstrike killed a family of six ...

BAGHDAD - This series of articles investigates the production and dissemination of fake news to sow instability in Iraq and the Middle East. It reveals how Iraqi (terrorist) groups are paying Facebook ...

YEREVAN - In 2018, Armenian citizens overthrew an authoritarian regime in a mass movement. Now, they are taking on an international mining company. Over the past few years, activists and ...

ANTWERP - FactRank is a free tool that automatically filters out statements from Dutch-language texts worthy of fact-checking.

GHENT - Podlab XL is a training programme for non-fiction podcast makers, that coaches audio novices from podcast idea to pilot.

MECHELEN - The Wablieft centre for clear language developed an online news channel with quality news for low-literature adults.

BORGERHOUT - Apache Local was a local journalism project in which news site Apache explored four themes with the help of local citizens and journalists.

BRUSSELS - U:nite works with a team of emerging actors and word artists to bring news to 16-24-year-old video consumers using new online formats.

GHENT - Sonderland was a journalism production house that produced pieces for other media outlets, focusing on one theme for an entire year. In 2019, the theme was “shelter” as a basic ...

GHENT - In this project, Chase provided grants and coaching to young journalists so they could create digital stories about social change in urban communities.

GHENT - The Polar Project is a cross-media magazine on climate change. It aims to promote interdisciplinary exchange through journalism, art, and performance, and to explore the boundaries of journalistic ...

BORGERHOUT - Factcheck.Vlaanderen is an online platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect disinformation and polarisation so that fact-checkers can verify and combat it.  

VILVOORDE - With this project regional television broadcaster RINGtv aims to get young people more involved in politics and vice versa.

GHENT - UITLANDER is a platform for high-quality, international stories about and by Belgians living abroad, made for the Belgian home audience.

CONAKRY - A team of journalists followed the money, investigating Guineagate, a corruption case that involved a French national promoting the interests of a private company that sought a mining license ...

ANTWERP - Karl van den Broeck, who succeeded Georges Timmerman as editor-in-chief of Apache in 2014, tells in a six-part series how the top man of De Persgroep (now DPG Media) ...

LODWAR/NAIROBI - In northern Kenya, drought caused by climate change brought also a surge in cash transfers to farmers. Millions have been invested, but locals claim they haven't received the ...