In the European media ecosystem, journalism networks have become increasingly important as responses to financial pressures on newsrooms, cross-border issues requiring collaborative reporting, technological change, and threats to media freedom. Journalism networks enable participants to pool resources, share knowledge, coordinate reporting, and amplify impact, often addressing challenges that individual newsrooms or journalists cannot effectively tackle alone. These collaborations may operate locally, nationally, regionally, or globally and can take both formal and informal organizational forms. These networks also serve as a democratic safeguard.
Arena for Journalism in Europe
Arena for Journalism in Europe supports collaborative journalism when reporters are working together across geographical and professional borders with scholars, scientists, and with civil society.
Arena Climate Network
This network is for those is who want to focus on all aspects of the climate crisis and who want to do in-depth, investigative work. It is an open-access network by and for journalists, who want to focus on all aspects of the climate crisis and who want to do in-depth, investigative work.
The Arena Food & Water Network
The network seeks to put issues concerning food and water on the agenda while also establishing the connection with citizens on a local level. They share knowledge, discuss research projects and develop cross-border collaborations.
Arena Labour Network
It is designed to connect journalists, researchers, scientists and tech experts specializing in labour issues across Europe.
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
EBU is the world's leading alliance of public service media. Representing over 100 member organizations across Europe and beyond, it facilitates content sharing (news, sports, and music), negotiates collective broadcasting rights, drives technological innovation, and lobbies for independent, public-focused broadcasting laws.
European Federation of Journalists
The EFJ is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing over 296,000 journalists in 75 journalists’ organisations across 44 countries.
Solutions Journalism Network
Launched in 2023, the Solutions Journalism Network is a global network that connects and highlights reporters around the world committed to creating and sharing rigorous and compelling reporting on responses to social problems.
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
OCCRP is an investigative reporting platform for a worldwide network of independent media outlets and journalists. One of the largest investigative journalism organizations in the world.
The International Fact-Checking Network (ICFN)
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) is a global organization that unites and supports over 170 fact-checking organisations.
International Consortium of Journalists Europe (ICIJ Europe)
ICIJ Europe is an affiliate of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, that is dedicated to strengthening collaborative investigative journalism in Europe.
International Consortium of Journalists (ICIJ)
ICIJ is a Washington DC-based global network of more than 290 investigative journalists and 140 media partners in more than 100 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.
Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)
GIJN serves as a central hub for watchdog reporters, providing training, networking, and data-journalism tools to expose abuses of power, corruption, and systemic accountability failures worldwide.
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
GFMD is a global international netwok of media development and journalism support organisations with more than 220 members.
Forbidden Stories
Forbidden Stories is an international global network of journalists founded in 2017. It focuses its collaborative global investigations on five primary core domains: cyber-surveillance, disinformation and election manipulation, environmental crime, government corruption, and war-zone violence against the press.
European Investigative Collaboration (EIC)
EIC is a major European cross-border journalism network founded in 2015. The network connects independent newspapers, digital outlets, and non-profits to jointly research, investigate and publish stories of European significance.
European Fact-Checking Standard Network (EFCSN)
EFCSN is the network coalition of over 60 fact-checking organisations working across Europe.
Covering Climate Now (CCNow)
It is a global network of journalists for journalists. The aim is to improve the climate coverage worldwide.
Clean Energy Wire (CLEW)
The CLEW Journalism Network brings together journalists covering the energy transition and climate policy from across the globe.
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The IFJ, the world's largest organisation of journalists, represents 600,000 media professionals from 187 trade unions and associations in more than 140 countries.
FÜLKE – Community of Independent Local Newsrooms
FÜLKE was created by independent local newsrooms in Hungary that face similar professional, financial and organisational challenges.
Re:cover Ukraine
Re:cover Ukraine is a voluntary peer-to-peer network connecting Ukrainian and other European journalists through practical support, cross-border cooperation, and direct responses to journalists’ needs as they arise.
Women in Media NGO (Ukraine)
The initiative Women in Media was initiated in April 2019 by Liza Kuzmenko and Viktoriia Yermolaieva, who worked together at Hromadske Radio. It started with a small Facebook group, which currently unites a strong network of over 1,700 women journalists, editors, producers and other women in media from all regions of Ukraine.
Investigate Europe
Investigate Europe (IE) is a cross-border cooperative of investigative journalists from all over Europe committed to delivering quality and in-depth journalism that matters to Europeans.
EBU Investigative Journalism Network
EBU Investigative Journalism Network supports investigative journalism initiatives by connecting members with each other, to enrich their reporting by sharing sources and intelligence, and to increase the impact of important stories.
Environmental Investigative Forum – EIF
The Environmental Investigative Forum is a France-based NGO integrating covering of EU thematics and entities is an extra-territorial dimension. EIF works on a cross-regional level to provide training to journalists and newsrooms, foster innovative investigative projects and develop sustainable environmental journalism tools.
CORRECTIV.Europe
CORRECTIV.Europe brings together local journalists across Europe to do cross-border investigations
Lighthouse Reports
Lighthouse Reports is an award-winning international investigative newsroom working with some of the world’s leading media on deeply-reported public interest investigations.
n-ost
n-ost is a European network of journalists and media initiatives that strives to foster a resilient and integrated European media sphere through cross-border collaboration.
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is a network of non-governmental organisations promoting freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern and Eastern Europe.
Balkan Network of Science Journalists
A network of science journalists from across South East Europe, interested in improving the quality of critical and ethical science coverage.
European Federation for Science Journalism
A non-profit organisation that aims to promote independent, high-quality science journalism across Europe by organising meetings and conferences, setting-up cross-border investigative reporting grants, and running awards.
European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet)
Thanks to its 33 members in 22 countries, EDJNet explores Europe through data since 2017
Ethical Journalism Network
Promoting quality journalism through ethics, good governance and self-regulation.
Are We Europe
Are We Europe (AWE) is a media collective of over 1000 creatives and journalists all over Europe and beyond, that work on productions and projects that break borders and collaborate across multiple disciplines and formats.
Hostwriter Network
Hostwriter connects journalists from all over the world to seek and offer help, whether in the form of story collaboration, local advice or even accommodation. All journalists provide work samples by way of professional verification. Membership is free of charge.
Earth Journalism Network
The Earth Journalism Network is home to a professional community of climate and environmental journalists around the world. Network members can apply for EJN opportunities including workshops, Fellowship programs, grants to media organisations, story stipends, and support for story production and distribution.
Society of Freelance Journalists
The Society of Freelance Journalists is a global community for freelance journalists. It offers advice, moral support, learning and job opportunities for journalists whose main source of income is self-employment.
Reference – the European Independent Media Circle
Reference is a self-organised network of independent European news publishers supporting each other to address non-editorial organisational and business challenges.
Sphera Network
Sphera is a consortium of European independent media producing videos and podcasts for a more humane and socially-engaged European journalism.
PRESShub România
A widespread local press network in Romania.
VWN – Vereniging voor Wetenschapsjournalistiek en -communicatie Nederland
An independent association for science journalists and science communicators with 350 members, run by volunteers.
ReMC – Spanish Community Media Network
ReMC brings together, coordinates and defends the purposes of a diversity of media, initiatives and citizen communication practices included within the so-called Third Sector of Communication.
FADA Collective
FADA is a collective founded by a group of Italian freelance reporters working across media and borders.
Inclusive Journalism Cymru
Inclusive Journalism Cymru is a network to connect, support and campaign for those who’ve been marginalised or excluded by the journalism industry in Wales.
Onderzoekscollectief Spit
Cooperative of eight freelance investigative journalists based in The Netherlands.
Investigative Journalists NGO
The Investigative Journalists NGO is an organisation dedicated to investigative journalism in Armenia. In 2001, it launched an online media called Hetq, which produces investigative articles, documentaries and multimedia stories on a daily basis.
Netzwerk Recherche
Netzwerk Recherche is the German association of investigative journalists.
Reporters Online
Reporters Online supports new business models for freelance journalism.
Eurolife
A group of 15 small media organisations at local and national level from the West Oltenia region and 7 large media organisations from Bucharest, Romania
List of capacity-building, funding, protective and training organisations
Tactical Tech
Tactical Tech supports individuals and communities in navigating the social impacts of technology through critical thinking, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. By creating learning spaces, developing accessible resources, and working closely with partners, it helps build the skills and understanding needed for more informed, sustainable, and resilient ways of engaging with the digital world.
RSF
Reporters Without Borders is a global international non-profit organisation governed by principles of democratic governance and every human being to have access to free and reliable information. The headquarter is in Paris, has seven offices all around the world, six sections in Europe and 134 correspondents from every all over the world.
Journalismfund
Journalismfund Europe is an independent, non-profit intermediary organisation based in Brussels, founded in 1998. It was set up with the aim of strengthening democracy in Europe by facilitating independent, cross-border investigative journalism and by bringing donors and journalists or media together without endangering the journalists’ independence.
EJC
European Journalism Centre is an independent Dutch non-profit based in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Their aim to strengthen European journalism and media by connecting journalists and media to new ideas, providing grants and skills development, supporting innovation and producing resources, training and events. EJC publishes Datajournalism.com, a resource for data journalists.
ECPMF
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom is a non-profit organisation that was founded in Germany, 2015. It operates on the basis of the European Charter on Freedom of the Press and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. ECPMF’s mission is to promote, preserve and defend media freedom. They do this by monitoring violations, providing practical support and engaging diverse stakeholders across Europe.
IPI
The International Press Institute (IPI) is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists who share a common dedication to quality, independent journalism. Together, we promote the conditions that allow journalism to fulfill its public function, the most important of which is the media’s ability to operate free from interference and without fear of retaliation.
CPJ
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is a global independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. We defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal.
IFEX
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) is a global network of organisations who collaborate for the common goal of defending and promoting free expression all over the world.
Media Defence
Media Defence: It is a global international human rights organisation which provides legal defence to journalists, citizen journalists and independent media around the world who are under threat for their reporting.
Article19
Article19: It is a global international think–do organisation that propels the freedom of expression movement, locally and globally, to ensure all people realise the power of their voices. They run campaigns and do legal work to defend freedom of speech, citizens and journalists.
