N-ost
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The Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe (n-ost) is an international NGO and a registered association based in Berlin
.
Also known by the acronym n-ost, the Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe
is led by Executive Director Hanno Gundert and a seven-member board. The organisation has its main office with full-time staff in Berlin's Kreuzberg
district.
n-ost aims to improve journalist
s’ reporting on Eastern Europe. It also aims to make a contribution to the development of democratic media
in Eastern Europe and to the establishment of a pan-European public sphere
. To this end it provides newspaper
s and radio
stations in Germany
, Austria
and Switzerland
with daily background reports from Eastern Europe, organizes training programmes for journalists and hosts a large annual media conference at a different venue each year – in recent years the conference has taken place in Berlin, Prague
, Sofia
, Bucharest
, Rostov on Don, Pécs
and Minsk
. A joint program of n-ost and Access Info Europe is Legal Leaks, which tries to empower journalists to use better their right of access to information Freedom of information legislation
. In addition n-ost organizes various projects for journalists – for example a research grant programme for investigation of right-wing extremism
and antisemitism in Eastern Europe, a reportage prize, a European online culture portal and a series of reports focusing on particular topics, such as poverty among old people in Eastern Europe or globalisation and the labour market. Almost 250 German-speaking journalists from twenty countries are members of n-ost. Since May 2008 n-ost has been producing eurotopics.net – a quadri-lingual European online debate portal – on behalf of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) – for which it has a separate team of editorial
staff.
n-ost’s work is supported by an advisory board comprising the following members: Werner D'Inka (publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
), Sabine Adler (head of Deutschlandradio
-Hauptstadtstudio), Christian Böhme (chief editor of the Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung), Henrik Kaufholz (duty editor at Politiken
, Copenhagen), Horst Pöttker (Professor of Journalism at the Technical University Dortmund
), Sonja Margolina (journalist), Uwe Neumärker (director of the foundation "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"), Tomasz Dąbrowski (director of the Polish
Institute in Berlin), Ludmila Rakusanova (head of the VLP Institute for Regional Journalism, Prague
), Markus Hipp (Executive Director BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) and Uwe Leuschner (entrepreneur).
n-ost works closely with other journalists' organisations and networks pursuing similar aims, both in Germany and at an international level. These include the journalists’ organisation Netzwerk Recherche, the Polish foundation Medientandem and the Hungarian Bálint György Academy of Journalism. n-ost also stages joint projects with a number of foundations and institutions, including the foundation "Memory, Responsibility and Future", the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Robert Bosch Stiftung
, OSCE the Institute for Foreign Relations, the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the German-Czech Future Fund, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S., the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung for Freedom, Renovabis
, the Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Goethe Institute.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
Also known by the acronym n-ost, the Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
is led by Executive Director Hanno Gundert and a seven-member board. The organisation has its main office with full-time staff in Berlin's Kreuzberg
Kreuzberg
Kreuzberg, a part of the combined Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte since 2001, is one of the best-known areas of Berlin...
district.
n-ost aims to improve journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
s’ reporting on Eastern Europe. It also aims to make a contribution to the development of democratic media
News media
The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
in Eastern Europe and to the establishment of a pan-European public sphere
Public sphere
The public sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action...
. To this end it provides newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
stations in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
with daily background reports from Eastern Europe, organizes training programmes for journalists and hosts a large annual media conference at a different venue each year – in recent years the conference has taken place in Berlin, Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, Rostov on Don, Pécs
Pécs
Pécs is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya county...
and Minsk
Minsk
- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
. A joint program of n-ost and Access Info Europe is Legal Leaks, which tries to empower journalists to use better their right of access to information Freedom of information legislation
Freedom of information legislation
Freedom of information legislation comprises laws that guarantee access to data held by the state. They establish a "right-to-know" legal process by which requests may be made for government-held information, to be received freely or at minimal cost, barring standard exceptions...
. In addition n-ost organizes various projects for journalists – for example a research grant programme for investigation of right-wing extremism
Extremism
Extremism is any ideology or political act far outside the perceived political center of a society; or otherwise claimed to violate common moral standards...
and antisemitism in Eastern Europe, a reportage prize, a European online culture portal and a series of reports focusing on particular topics, such as poverty among old people in Eastern Europe or globalisation and the labour market. Almost 250 German-speaking journalists from twenty countries are members of n-ost. Since May 2008 n-ost has been producing eurotopics.net – a quadri-lingual European online debate portal – on behalf of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) – for which it has a separate team of editorial
Editorial
An opinion piece is an article, published in a newspaper or magazine, that mainly reflects the author's opinion about the subject. Opinion pieces are featured in many periodicals.-Editorials:...
staff.
n-ost’s work is supported by an advisory board comprising the following members: Werner D'Inka (publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , short F.A.Z., also known as the FAZ, is a national German newspaper, founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt am Main. The Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .F.A.Z...
), Sabine Adler (head of Deutschlandradio
Deutschlandradio
Deutschlandradio is a national German public broadcasting radio broadcaster. It operates four national networks, Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Dokumente und Debatten and DRadio Wissen....
-Hauptstadtstudio), Christian Böhme (chief editor of the Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung), Henrik Kaufholz (duty editor at Politiken
Politiken
Politiken is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.The newspaper comes third among Danish newspapers in terms of both number of readers and circulated copies ....
, Copenhagen), Horst Pöttker (Professor of Journalism at the Technical University Dortmund
Dortmund
Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....
), Sonja Margolina (journalist), Uwe Neumärker (director of the foundation "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"), Tomasz Dąbrowski (director of the Polish
Poles
thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...
Institute in Berlin), Ludmila Rakusanova (head of the VLP Institute for Regional Journalism, Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
), Markus Hipp (Executive Director BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) and Uwe Leuschner (entrepreneur).
n-ost works closely with other journalists' organisations and networks pursuing similar aims, both in Germany and at an international level. These include the journalists’ organisation Netzwerk Recherche, the Polish foundation Medientandem and the Hungarian Bálint György Academy of Journalism. n-ost also stages joint projects with a number of foundations and institutions, including the foundation "Memory, Responsibility and Future", the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Robert Bosch Stiftung
Robert Bosch Stiftung
The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH is one of the major German foundations associated with a private company. It holds 92% of the capital stock from Robert Bosch GmbH of 1.2 billion euros. Established in 1964, it represents the philanthropic and social endeavors of founder Robert Bosch .The purpose of...
, OSCE the Institute for Foreign Relations, the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the German-Czech Future Fund, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S., the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung for Freedom, Renovabis
Renovabis
Renovabis - a charitable organization of Roman Catholic Church in Germany. Established in 1993 for helping people of Eastern and Central Europe. Main office is located in Germany....
, the Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Goethe Institute.
External links
- n-ost
- www.legalleaks.info
- interview with the ex-managing director of n-ost
- Interview with Hanno Gundert, managing director of n-ost
- The Hamburg Signal on Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Thought in Eastern Europe
- Article on N-ost in Hidden Europe
- Article on n-ost in the magazine Europa
- euro|topics