Exile Media Forum 2024

The sixth Exile Media Forum (EMF) and the Young Exile Media Forum will take place on 15 and 16 October 2024 in Hamburg.

The EMF offers a unique platform to connect with international peers and meet representatives from civil society and politics. We are pleased to announce that the keynote address will be delivered by Aye Chan Naing, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the exiled Democratic Voice of Burma, one of Myanmar’s leading independent exile media organizations.

This year’s EMF will focus on methodological approaches and solutions. We will discuss innovative funding and distribution models for exile media outlets. We will also address questions, such as: How can journalists best navigate the legal conditions of life in exile?  What collaborations between exile and German media have been most successful and why? What opportunities can AI technology and community-based platforms offer for journalists living in exile?

Speakers from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua and Russia will share their insights.

The EMF’s guest partners are the JX Fund and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, with additional participation from the DW Akademie, Neue Deutsche Medienmacher*innen, Radio Sakharov/CORRECTIV and more.  

The Young Exile Media Forum will take place on October 16. The Norwegian fact-checking organization Faktisk.no will hold practical workshops aimed primarily at exiled journalists under the age of 40. Participants will learn methods of fact-checking using AI technology.

The Exile Media Forum is part of the Hamburg Week of Press Freedom, an initiative of Körber-Stiftung and ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS.