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The JX Fund is helping media professionals to continue their work quickly and flexibly after they have fled war and crisis regions. It aims to strengthen independent media in exile after attention has shifted elsewhere and to support them in building sustainable media outlets that remain accessible in their home countries.
Putin’s attack on Ukraine has not only plunged Ukrainian media organisations into an existential crisis; it has led to the bombing of numerous media buildings and put reporters’ lives in danger. In Russia, the Kremlin has increased censorship to such an extent that hundreds of media professionals who long defied official pressure have now left the country. Many of them want to continue their work in exile and re-establish their editorial offices; the situation is similar for the many reporters who fled Belarus after Alexander Lukashenko’s “re-election” in 2020.
In order to help these and other media professionals to continue their work quickly and flexibly in exile, we founded the JX Fund together with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Schöpflin Foundation in March 2022. With an inclusive and agile structure, this European fund for journalism in exile will also offer advice and assistance to those wishing to develop sustainable models for new exile media in the long term.
When independent media organisations are driven out of a country, they become more important than ever. They reveal what authoritarian regimes and dictatorships want to keep hidden. Without independent media, censorship wins. For this very reason, we have co-founded the JX Fund.
| Funding period | 2022 |
| Funding amount | 60,000 Euro |
| Website | www.jx-fund.org |