N-ost
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n-ost – Network for Border Crossing Journalism e.V. is a European journalism network. The media NGO has a focus on Eastern Europe and is committed to cross-border and multiperspective reporting. n-ost connects journalists and media, supports research and provides training: 500 correspondents, photographers and editors work from across Europe. n-ost headquarters are based in Berlin, Germany.[1]
Overview
n-ost aims to improve journalists’ 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.
n-ost was founded in 2006.
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 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, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Institute for Foreign Relations, the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the German-Czech Future Fund, the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung for Freedom, Renovabis, the Allianz Kulturstiftung (now Allianz Foundation) and the Goethe Institute.
In July 2025, the n-ost NGO was declared an undesirable organization in Russia.[2]