Committing to cross-border, collaborative journalism that links society and its real-world problems with investigative reporting, while offering solutions in various formats—this was the core focus when the new taz panter network was presented at the International Journalism Festival (IJF) in Perugia this past April.

The network had been founded shortly beforehand in Berlin, where the taz panter foundation has been based since 2008. It currently comprises around 500 independent journalists and critical voices from around the world—individuals who have participated as interns, as attendees of the foundation’s local youth projects, as international journalists in the “Rest & Resilience” (Refugium) program, or in workshops alongside colleagues from the MENA region, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe, or who have been honored with the taz panter prize for civic engagement.

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