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The closing panel of Reclaiming Reality: n-counter goes personal. A documentary filmmaker who spent years with a former extremist. A journalist who faced death threats and a smear campaign for breaking a story.

1/2 Journalist Tuğba Tekerek has been arrested in Türkiye.Tuğba joined a research trip to Georgia in 2024, where she met the organisers of Tbilisi Pride and later reported on their work. Her arrest follows raids on LGBTQI+ groups at 38 addresses across Türkiye.

1/2 What does journalism need to do differently? The Media panel of n-counter brings together four practitioners to pitch their visions for what journalism needs to become.

1/2 Germany, are you alright? The political panel of n-counter brings together reporters from Germany, Hungary, and the UK to examine the rightward shift and what the German press is still missing.

At Reclaiming Reality: An n-counter in Berlin on 2 Oct, authors Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social (Germany, Die Möglichkeit von Glück) and Michal Hvorecký (Slovakia, Troll, Dissident) talk historical silence, far-right drift, and contested realities.

Burning forests. A stalling economy. A right on the rise. While Europe is preoccupied with problems at home, a quiet giant is shaping the global stage behind the scenes: Understanding China is becoming ever more important. What does it take to report on China? Join us on 27 August.

1/2 Poland is reforming its public media. Hungary's newsrooms are rebuilding. Czechia has people in the streets. Slovakia is sliding. The Visegrad Group just revived; but what does that mean for press freedom in the region? Join us on 8 July in Berlin.

1/2 PULSE 2026 is calling for cross-border journalism pitches. Two formats: Sprint Stories (2 journalists, deadline 15 July) and Deep Dive Series (3–4 journalists, deadline 20 Aug). EU member and candidate countries eligible.

1/2 Tens of thousands of workers produce car parts for German manufacturers in Serbia, many of them women, facing low pay and health risks with little power to change things. This year's Recherchepreis Osteuropa 2026 goes to a project investigating exactly that.

1/2 Journalists must hold big tech accountable — while depending on big tech to reach their audiences. That's the paradox at the heart of our next kitchen talk. Join us next Wednesday in Berlin with: Sabrina Faramarzi, Nico Schmidt, Jasmine Erkan and Alexandra Zeitlin.

1/2 Four years since the full-scale invasion: How Russia limits our knowledge of occupation. Our panel at Café Kyiv brought together journalists who survived Russian captivity or lived under occupation to talk about the information blackout about Russian-occupied Ukrainian areas.

1/2 Between democratic hope and authoritarian resurgence. Through disinformation and war: For 20 years, n-ost has been nurturing voices that challenge power and connect societies.

1/2 "Cooperation allows media outlets to pool resources and expertise: sharing costs while multiplying the impact." Srbuhi Vardanyan, @civilnet.bsky.social, participant in n-ost’s “Seizing Synergies” project, on the importance of cross-border collaboration for independent media in Eastern Europe.

1/2 Introducing "Seizing Synergies": a new cross-border journalism project by n-ost. Independent media in Eastern Europe are more resilient when they start working in collaboration. Within the project, journalists from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine will create a collaborative desk.

1/2 The political landscape has shifted: less focus on the climate crisis, less money for adaptation, more voices denying its urgency. So where does that leave climate action, and who picks up the work when major players step back?

Intensified discussions about possible peace deals between Ukraine and Russia make one question urgent: what does "peace" under Russian control actually look like? Ukraine's occupied territories answer that question. They also risk becoming instruments of political bargaining.

What do we really know about life under occupation? Join the discussion with: • Raji Abdul Salam, Chief Legal Data Archivist at @trpforjustice.bsky.social • Lenie Umerova, Crimean Tatar activist and former prisoner of war

Intensified discussions about possible peace deals between Ukraine and Russia make one question urgent: what does "peace" under Russian control actually look like? Ukraine's occupied territories answer that question. They also risk becoming instruments of political bargaining.

Within the project “Life Under Occupation”, sixteen journalists from UA, GE FR and PL formed cross-border teams, researched for months, and produced investigations. Join us for the presentation of their work: