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and independence in journalism

New podcast

What happens in Evros when the wildfires die down and the border fence slips out of the spotlight? Journalist Apostolos Staikos travels to Northern Evros, exploring life in the remote border villages. He delves into issues of demographic collapse, the local economy, wildfires, and the border fence.

iMEdD’s new podcast premieres on January 16th. [Available in Greek]

iMEdD Incubator 2025: New cycle for local journalists in Greece

The program is open to teams of professional journalists (employed or freelance) working for different local media outlets across Greece.

The call for applications will run from January 20 to February 16 (23:59).

NEW GUIDE by GIJN and iMEdD

Discover the free resource from our Introduction to Investigative Journalism training. It covers essential tools for data journalism, cross-border investigations, and climate reporting.

Available in English and Greek at howtoinvestigate.lab.imedd.org.

PARTICIPATE

From single-day workshops to extended series, we organize a variety of events and trainings, provide useful tools and exchange insights with the community.

Event

SNF Dialogues present in the USA a series of open discussions #3 The Role of Universities in Modern Democracy

Completed 13 Nov

As part of SNF’s broader series of open discussions on Civic Engagement and Civil Discourse in the US, the SNF Dialogues will examine how can we ensure that universities continue to fulfill their crucial role in promoting and safeguarding democratic values.

Online

Event

Open event | Trump’s re-election

Completed 08 Nov

iMEdD invites you to an open discussion with experts, who will analyze what Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election means for Greece, the world, and journalism.

iMEdD, 3A Stadiou Street

Event

iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2024

Completed 28 Sep

iMEdD International Journalism Forum is back! From September 26th to 28th in Athens, we discuss press freedom, artificial intelligence, data journalism, reporting on the climate crisis, corruption, war, and more.

Athens Epidaurus Festival, 260 Piraeus Street

Ten fellowships for local press journalists in Greece

Completed 03 Sep

We are pleased to announce 10 fellowships to journalists from local and regional media in Greece, covering their travel and accommodation expenses for iMEdD’ s International Journalism Forum that will take place from 26 to 28 September in Athens.

Athens, Epidaurus Festival, 260 Piraeus Street

Training

Introduction to Investigative Journalism – A training course by iMEdD ideas zone and GIJN

Completed 15 Nov

iMEdD has partnered with GIJN to create this 9-week training program, which will equip reporters globally with the skills necessary to navigate the intricacies of investigative journalism.

Online & in Greece

SNF Dialogues present in the USA a series of open discussions #2 Consumers or Citizens

Completed 29 May

As part of SNF’s broader series of open discussions on Civic Engagement and Civil Discourse in the US, the SNF Dialogues will examine how the proliferation of political advertising, paid campaigns, and marketing strategies has reshaped contemporary political discourse.

The Queen Theater, Wilmington, Delaware

UPDATES

03/01/2025

GIJC25 Call for ideas: Deadline extended

24/12/2024

Aegean myths come alive in the fifth issue of the “Desks in the Aegean”

19/11/2024

Media Capture in Greece: A new report by IPI & MJRC

15/11/2024

Analyzing Trump’s return: A challenge for global politics and journalism

Lab is iMEdD’s content production division. Focusing on data journalism and adopting a high modern paradigm in journalism, Lab produces and presents original content, with data at its core: in lab.imedd.org, you can find investigations, analyses, and interactive visualization of data, relevant methodologies and datasets, new ideas, and people who change the media industry, as well as content that derives from the organizations’ initiatives.

Two award-winning projects with Manisha Ganguly

18/12/2024

Manisha Ganguli, The Guardian’s visual forensics lead, discussed with iMEdD her role in two IJ4EU IMPACT Award-winning investigations.

Reporting from Damascus

16/12/2024

Elvira Krithari, the first Greek journalist to enter Syria after the fall of Assad, talks to iMEdD about working conditions on the ground and the presence of foreign journalists in Damascus.

DISCOVER

Here you can find content created by us and content that has been created with our support. Journalistic investigations, documentaries, photographic projects, podcasts, multimedia projects, web applications, organizations and other formats produced in and around iMEdD by our team, by our network partners, or by project participants.