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 a seven-member board
- led by the chairwomen Christina Hebel and Melanie Longerich.
The
organisation has its main office with full-time staff in Berlin's
Kreuzberg
district.
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.
To this
end it provides newspapers and radio stations in Germany
, Austria
and Switzerland
with daily background reports from Eastern Europe,
organises 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
and Bucharest
. In addition n-ost organises 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, 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.
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