Network for reporting on Eastern Europe

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The network for reporting on Eastern Europe (abbr .: n-ost ) is a registered association and an international non-governmental organization based in Berlin - Kreuzberg . The association has an honorary seven-person board of directors made up of journalists from several countries; The chair is held by Spiegel Online editor Christina Hebel and broadcast journalist Annette Streicher, who mainly works for ZDF and ARD radio . The association has a full-time office in Berlin-Kreuzberg , which employs managing director Hanno Gundert as well as several journalistic and non-journalistic employees.

aims

n-ost would like to improve journalistic reporting on Eastern Europe . In addition, the association has set itself the goal of making contributions to democratic media development in Eastern Europe and to a pan-European public . In addition, daily newspaper, magazine and radio editorial offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are supplied with background reports and analyzes, joint journalistic series are created with partners such as arte , advanced training courses are organized and a large international media conference is organized once a year in changing cities - most recently the media conference took place in Berlin , Prague , Sofia , Bucharest , Rostov-on-Don , Pécs , Minsk and Belgrade . In 2013 the media conference took place in Lviv .

Projects

In addition, n-ost organizes various international media policy and journalistic projects - for example research grant programs on the topics of right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe and cultures of remembrance in Central and Eastern Europe, a reportage award , a European online culture portal and series of reports on key topics such as old-age poverty in Eastern Europe, globalized Working worlds or the situation of the Roma in Eastern Europe. In 2009 n-ost implemented the project "20 years after the fall of the Wall" and documented the debates on the past in various European countries. Together with Access Info, n-ost is organizing the pan-European project Legal Leaks , which aims to strengthen freedom of information as a journalistic research tool and raise awareness of data security among journalists . Almost 250 German-speaking journalists from more than 20 countries are members of the n-ost association. Since May 2008, n-ost has been producing the trilingual (German, English, French) European online debate portal eurotopics.net on behalf of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and also maintains a network of correspondents in all Western European countries. Several journalistic translators also work for eurotopics. N-ost also regularly organizes research trips to focus on specific topics or regions - for example to Belarus , Bosnia-Herzegovina or antiziganism in Hungary and energy policy in the border triangle of the Czech Republic , Poland and Germany . N-ost has been the publisher of the Eastern Europe magazine ostpol since February 2013 .

Advisory Board

N-ost is supported in its work by an international advisory board, Werner D'Inka (publisher Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), Sabine Adler (head of Deutschlandradio -Hauptstadtstudio), Christian Böhme (editor-in-chief Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung), Henrik Kaufholz (head of the Politiken service , Copenhagen ), Horst Pöttker (Professor of Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund ), Sonja Margolina (Publicist), Uwe Neumärker (Managing Director of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation ), Tomasz Dąbrowski (Director of the Polish Institute in Berlin), Ludmila Rakusanova ( Head of the VLP Institute for Regional Journalism, Prague), Markus Hipp (Managing Director BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) and Uwe Leuschner (Entrepreneur). The advisory board is not involved in the ongoing business of the n-ost association, but advises the board on strategic issues.

partner

n-ost works closely in Germany and at international level with other journalists 'associations and networks that pursue similar goals - including the journalists' association Netzwerk Recherche , the freedom of the press organization Reporters Without Borders , the Spanish freedom of information NGO Access Info , the South East Europe Media Organization SEEMO , the Open Knowledge Foundation , the Polish Foundation Medientandem and the Hungarian Bálint György Journalism Academy . In its projects, n-ost works together with various foundations and institutions, including the OSCE , Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future , Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship , the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , the Heinrich Böll Foundation of Robert Bosch Foundation , Open Society Institute , the Institute for Foreign Relations , the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt , the German-Czech Future Fund , the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , Renovabis , the Allianz Kulturstiftung and the Goethe-Institut . n-ost is an institutional member of the Media and Development Forum (FoME), the Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) and the German Society for Eastern European Studies .

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