CORRECTIV.Exile

CORRECTIV.Exile is a growing platform where journalists in exile exchange ideas, collaborate on investigations, and gain visibility in Germany. As a telescope for the future of democracy, we illuminate authoritarian threats by bringing together critical voices from exile and thus exposing the dangers to free societies.

Call for Participation

Your story deserves to be heard. Are you an exiled journalist, writer, or artist living in Germany? Take the stage in Berlin and share your unique perspective on human rights, press freedom, or life in exile. Eight speakers, five minutes each, one powerful evening.
Apply by 3rd of May.

Journalist-in-Residence Program

Journalism in exile needs space, exchange, and visibility. The CORRECTIV.Exile residency in Berlin supports journalists forced into exile due to persecution connected to their work. Over six months, you will work in a professional newsroom, pursue your own projects, and engage in editorial exchange, collaboration and public dialogue.
Apply by May 31, 2026.

News from CORRECTIV.Exile

Events series

Exile Talks: Stand Up!

Stay informed about Exile Talks and our investigative work.

Programs and Initiatives

Exile Media Project

Radio Sakharov

Radio Sakharov: A Russian-language internet radio and podcast platform, founded with exiled members of the Sakharov Center, focusing on Russian social issues and democratic values.

Exile Media Project

#ÖZGÜRÜZ

#ÖZGÜRÜZ: A Turkish-language platform broadcasting into Turkey, supporting freedom of expression through collaboration with the Peace Nobel Prize-nominated journalist Can Dündar.

Exile Media Project

Kara Kutu

Kara Kutu permanently preserves Turkish digital media content on the blockchain, creating a censorship-resistant archive that protects public memory and makes valuable sources accessible to researchers and journalists.

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CORRECTIV.Exile Publications

International

Nowhere to Exist: Queer and Trans Afghans on The Move

An Escape is meant to bring people from danger to safety. For queer and trans Afghans, however, it does not. Instead, it leads them from Taliban rule to familial control, to regional deportation regimes, to bureaucratic indifference—a chain without any moment of arrival.22.05.26

Europe

Made in Moscow: The Foreign Agent Law as a Blueprint for Autocrats

It is not a secret weapon or a military tactic. It is a law — bureaucratic, dull, and devastatingly effective. Russia’s 2012 foreign agent legislation gave autocrats everywhere a template for dismantling civil society while keeping their hands seemingly clean. 07.05.26

Europe

A Ukrainian in a Russian Uniform

What prisoners of war from the occupied territories reveal about identity, coercion, and the story Russia tells about why it went to war - and why it matters for how Europe understands Russia's justification for the war.30.04.26

Europe

The Oligarch-Autocrat Alliances

emocracy is not dying by sudden coup – it is being dismantled through the law itself, using a shared playbook refined across continents.09.04.26

Europe

Learning to Backslide: How Autocrats Share Money, Methods, and Models

Democracy is not dying by sudden coup – it is being dismantled through the law itself, using a shared playbook refined across continents. 10.02.26

Europe

Azerbaijan: The Price of Victory and the Silence of Dissent

In this article series, we take a second look at current events in countries that often remain only briefly spotlighted in German reporting. Together with local experts, we ask: What political and social developments lie behind the current events that we see in the news? What does this mean for democracy and media freedom? With our exile expertise, we want to reveal global connections and understand what we can learn from this for free, democratic coexistence. In this episode, Azerbaijani journalist Fatima Karimova writes about the repression of media workers in her homeland and why the European Union repeatedly turns a blind eye to it.16.12.25

Become Part of the Network

Your platform for visibility, further training, and exchange. Join us via our application form.

CORRECTIV.Exile Events

Completed Projects and Events

Afghan Media Incubator

A programme supporting exiled Afghan journalists in acquiring the skills needed to establish and sustainably operate their own media projects — with a particular focus on public interest orientation, media diversity, and sustainable business models. The project was financially supported by JX Fund and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

Exile Talks 2025

In 2025, we organised 16 events in Berlin as well as in Essen, Dortmund and Cologne, reaching over 500 participants with speakers from 16 countries. Topics ranged from Belarusian exile media and Russian disinformation to the protest movement in Iran and media freedom in Turkey, through to the fight for free media in the South Caucasus and the coverage of migration in German media. In addition to panel discussions, CORRECTIV.Exile offered hands-on workshops and a special “Stand Up!” evening featuring nine speakers from countries including Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Sudan. Partner organisations such as Dekoder e.V., Meduza, JX Fund, N-Ost, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and Schauspiel Köln contributed to the programme’s thematic diversity. We were supported by Erasmus, Engagement Global, the Friends of the Böll Foundation, and GLS Treuhand.

Our Mission and Vision

Strengthening Independent Journalism

CORRECTIV.Exile develops projects that support journalists in exile: we organise public events, build a collaborative network for joint investigations, and raise the visibility of their work in Germany.

Exile Journalism as a Pillar of Democracy

Exiled media professionals act like a telescope—they often recognise threats to democracy and freedom of expression before they become widely visible. Their knowledge, research, and perspectives enrich public discourse, expose grievances, and promote press freedom. The initiatives of exiled journalists are crucial to bringing insights to light and preparing societies for future challenges.