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European Journalism Network | Media NGO | Focus on Eastern Europe | Cross-Border Reporting n-ost is a European journalistic 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.

14/10/2026

Journalist Tuğba Tekerek has been in prison in Türkiye for a month, over an article she wrote in 2024. Please help us support her.

She was arrested on 15 September during raids on LGBTQIA+ organisations. She can’t work or earn money, but her expenses continue.

n-ost calls for her release. Until then, your donation helps cover her costs.

Link in bio.

06/10/2026

That's a wrap on n-counter.

Two days of big questions, honest conversations, and a community that showed up from across Europe to make sense of a moment none of us are facing alone.

Thank you to everyone who came, spoke, listened, and stayed for the closing drinks.

See you at the next one.

06/10/2026

01/10/2026

Tomorrow, n-counter starts across the city. Starting with six Berlin newsrooms hosting satellite sessions on the frontlines of reliable information.

11:00 AM — Satellite Events

Die Zeit — Multiperspectivity and depolarisation
Reporters Without Borders Germany — Algorithms and big platforms
Krautreporter — Community-driven journalism

3:00 PM — Satellite Events
PULSE — Cross-border collaboration
taz — Confronting far-right narrative capture
Clean Energy Wire — Climate reporting

Then in the evening, the n-counter opens its doors.

6:00–8:00 PM — Opening Session
Democracy, Disillusionment and Contested Realities

Authors Anne Rabe and Michal Hvorecký in conversation on unresolved histories, polarised media, and the rise of the far right.

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Still undecided? Get in touch with the conference team to join us. Link in bio.

24/09/2026

The closing panel of n-counter makes space for the conversation journalists rarely have in public: what it actually takes to keep doing this work, and what we can learn from each other to sustain it.

Loraine Blumenthal is a documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, working for Arte, ZDF, 3sat, and WDR. Her feature film Im Osten was Neues, following a former far-right extremist over years, won multiple awards and premiered at Dokfest Munich. She knows what it costs to stay close to a story for that long.

Boróka Parászka is a journalist and opinion editor at HVG.hu, based in Târgu Mureș, Romania. In 2022 she broke the story of burnt Hungarian mail-in ballots found near her city. What followed was a government-backed smear campaign, death threats, and a far-right politician publicly calling for her to be hanged.

The conversation is held by Emma Thomasson; media adviser, executive coach, and former Reuters bureau chief, who spent years running news teams across multiple countries before turning her expertise to media leadership and workplace mental health.

After the conversation, the audience is invited to reflect on what they want to carry forward.

• Holding On, Letting Go | Personal
• 3 October, 3:30–5:00 PM, Berlin.

For more information and to register, follow the link in bio

18/09/2026

He wrote a novel about trolls before "troll" was a job description.

Michal Hvorecký's 2019 book Troll mapped the mechanics of disinformation. His new book Dissident traces Europe's path from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the return of authoritarian politics. Karl Schlögel called it a book of precise memory, family history, and quiet confidence.

In Slovakia, Hvorecký is an active voice for press freedom against anti-democratic drift. At n-counter, he joins the opening session to ask what that fight looks like from the other side of a border Germany hasn't had to cross.

Democracy, Disillusionment and Contested Realities
Moderated by Katrin Rönicke, Editor-in-Chief of the podcast label hauseins
2 October, 6–8 PM, Berlin.

More information and registration via link in bio.

18/09/2026

n-ost is in Warsaw this week for a study trip on EU accession reporting.

One stop: the Serock Energy Cooperative, a community-led renewable energy project with its own geothermal well, and one of the pioneering examples of decentralised, locally-run energy production in Central and Eastern Europe.

Twelve journalists and six NGO representatives from Armenia, Georgia, Germany, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine are learning first-hand how Poland's energy and agriculture sectors transformed.

The trip is part of "EU Reporting Beyond Slogans," a project helping journalists report on EU accession beyond simplified slogans.

In partnership with NewsMaker Moldova. Supported by the Auswärtiges Amt.

18/09/2026

What do you inherit when nobody talks about what happened?

Anne Rabe writes about the history of violence in East Germany, the life of Jan Ullrich, sexualised violence, and the far right's return, often in the same body of work.

Her debut novel Die Möglichkeit von Glück became a Spiegel bestseller and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. Her 2025 book Das M-Wort argues against the contempt for morality in public life.

Anne Rabe joins the Opening Session at n-counter to ask what unresolved histories have to do with today's far-right drift.

Democracy, Disillusionment and Contested Realities
Moderated by Katrin Rönicke, Editor-in-Chief of the podcast label hauseins
2 October, 6–8 PM, Berlin.

More information and registration via link in bio.

16/09/2026

Our friend and colleague, journalist Tuğba Tekerek, has been arrested in Türkiye on Sunday. Yesterday, her arrest was confirmed by a judge. Tuğba joined a research trip to Georgia in 2024, where she met the organisers of Tbilisi Pride and later reported on their work for Kaos GL.

Her arrest is part of a wider pattern of pressure on opposition voices, LGBTI+ people, minorities and journalists in Türkiye. Police detained dozens of people in raids on LGBTQI+ organisations in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Antalya.

n-ost stands with Tuğba and calls for her release. We encourage journalists' organisations and colleagues to help raise awareness of her case and of the wider situation facing press freedom and LGBTI+ rights in Türkiye.

16/09/2026

Before n-counter opens its doors on the evening of 2 October, we take the conference out into the city for a series of satellite sessions.
Six questions about how to report in a world where reality is contested, algorithms shape what people see, and the far right has learned to play the media game better than most.

The sessions cover:
Multiperspectivity and depolarisation — Die Zeit

Algorithms and big platforms — Reporters Without Borders Germany

Community-driven journalism — Krautreporter

Cross-border collaboration — PULSE

Confronting far-right narrative capture — taz

Climate reporting — Clean Energy Wire

More information and register via link in bio.

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