Newsroom Updates

Russia declares CORRECTIV an “undesirable organization”

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has designated CORRECTIV as an “undesirable foreign organization.” With this move, the Russian state is placing our journalistic work under blanket threat of punishment—while simultaneously demonstrating that our reporting is effective. Independent investigations are to be made impossible in Russia.

CORRECTIV.Europe with new leadership: Joanna Krawczyk becomes Managing Director, Frida Thurm strengthens the editorial team

The public interest non-profit media house CORRECTIV is advancing the restructuring of its European department CORRECTIV.Europe with international expertise: Joanna Krawczyk takes over as Managing Director of CORRECTIV.Europe as of October 1, 2024. With her extensive experience in the European media landscape and her commitment to independent journalism, she will drive the strategic development and execution of CORRECTIV.Europe forward.

CORRECTIV.Europe restructures, editor-in-chief Olaya Argüeso Pérez leaves CORRECTIV

The media house CORRECTIV is restructuring one of its core projects: CORRECTIV.Europe is to become an even stronger central hub for Europe’s local editors, journalists and communities. As part of the restructuring of CORRECTIV.Europe, Olaya Argüeso Pérez is leaving CORRECTIV as Editor-in-Chief.

How CORRECTIV’s journalism made a difference this year

The German government launches an investigation, a court takes the ex-pope to court and a sanction is imposed: CORRECTIV’s research once again had direct impacts in 2023. We show what has changed for the better.

CORRECTIV is working on a new AI tool

In the JournalismAI Fellowship, CORRECTIV developed the prototype for a new AI application within an international team of editors and developers.

Job posting: Freelance Developer Frontend / Backend

part time, freelance for 2 month, Berlin/Essen or remote

Call for applications for illustrators – Graphic Novel on Community Investigation

The Seek Initiative in collaboration with CORRECTIV is looking for an illustrator for a graphic novel on the topic of community investigation. The illustrator will work closely with the team composed of the author, an illustrations coordinator at CORRECTIV and a point person at the Seek Initiative.

noFake: an interdisciplinary project, combatting disinformation with human and artificial intelligence

In the fight against disinformation, the nonprofit investigative journalism newsroom CORRECTIV and scholars from Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and Technical University (TU) Dortmund team up for the project noFake. By using crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence (AI), noFake intents to identify and refute false reports.

Oliver Schröm new editor-in-chief at CORRECTIV

CORRECTIV’s Nerds Team is hiring a developer

Open positions at CORRECTIV

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