🔎 Making local government information easier to access

🇵🇹In Barcelos, Portugal, SETE JORNAL created Portulano Digital, a free and open platform bringing together public documents on decisions made by the Municipal Council.

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🎥 Young voices deserve a place in local journalism.

🇵🇱In Elbląg, Poland, portEl.pl is creating Elbląg w Rolce, a new space where young people can produce and share short videos on issues that matter to their lives, education and communities.

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🎥 How can complex global stories reach younger audiences?

🇧🇪 Belgian non-profit magazine @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social experimented with short-form video, testing explainers, street interviews and reporting formats across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

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🇮🇹Across Italy, communities living with industrial pollution, environmental damage and health inequalities often face the same challenge: complex stories that receive attention only when a crisis, court ruling or political controversy makes headlines.

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👵 Making ageing visible in local journalism

🇱🇻In Latvia’s Latgale region, CHAYKA.lv is giving population ageing the sustained attention it deserves—while making local journalism more accessible to older audiences.

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🌉 Building bridges between journalism and underserved communities
🇵🇹In Portugal, DIVERGENTE developed new tools to make the distribution of independent journalism more accessible and sustainable.

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🇫🇮Verde Voices piloted a new approach to providing fact-based information on Finnish society, politics and immigration. They produced 11 original articles, and launched an English-language newsletter that reached a 68% open rate.

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🎙️ Taking local journalism on the move

🇸🇮 Ovtar24 brought local journalism directly to residents through nine pop-up podcast recordings, opening conversations on healthcare, mental health, ageing, social inclusion, housing and community life.

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🎓 What if young people could become the storytellers of their own communities?

🇵🇹Geração SULi brought professional journalism into 6 secondary schools, giving 97 students hands-on experience in fact-checking, media ethics, reporting and multimedia storytelling.

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🇸🇮In Zasavje, Slovenia, ZON.si transformed part of its newsroom into a permanent Media Lab—a space where young people, aspiring journalists, schoolchildren and overlooked communities can learn, create and be heard.

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📱 Bringing local news to the communities that need it most

In Portugal, Altominho.tv developed and launched a new mobile app for iOS and Android, bringing hyper-local, public-interest journalism to rural communities and areas affected by news deserts.

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🗣️ Giving Roma voices a place in local journalism

Korso Mieleckie 🇵🇱launched "Let’s Get to Know Each Other", turning Roma history, culture and contemporary life into a sustained local conversation.

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🎯 Making investigative journalism more accessible to new audiences
@atlatszoerdely.bsky.social is diversifying how it tells stories to Transylvania’s Hungarian-speaking community🇷🇴🇭🇺.

Read more about the project supported by the PM4D grant programme⬇️
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🔎 What if people in prison could tell their own stories?

Lavialibera created a dedicated journalism space where inmates can report, write and share stories from inside prison

Because pluralistic journalism means making space for voices that are too often unheard. 🗣️

Read more: bit.ly/3Vewpbj
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🤖 Can AI help local journalism reach new audiences?

Jaw.pl in Silesia, Poland, is using AI to make local journalism more efficient—and more accessible.

Read more about the project⬇️
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🗣️ What happens when local journalism goes beyond borders? uh.ro is reimagining local media for the Hungarian-speaking community in Romania’s Harghita County.

👉Their project was supported by Journalismfund's #PM4D grant programme

Read more about the project: bit.ly/4gQPSr4