In February 2025, the body of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was finally returned to Ukraine after months of uncertainty. She was one of 757 Ukrainian casualties handed over by Russian authorities as part of an exchange of prisoners and the dead. Roshchyna had disappeared in the summer of 2023 while reporting from the Russian-occupied territories in…
The journalistic legacy of longtime National Catholic Reporter contributor Jason Berry has now been preserved by University Press of Mississippi as part of their Literary Conversations series. The new book Conversations with Jason Berry compiles 23 archived interviews in which Berry reflects on the forces that have shaped his work — including uncovering corruption in the Catholic…
Shorouk Express Gaining professional status as a journalist very often entails a long and difficult period of precarity. And as Italian freelancer Sara* suggested in the first part of this series, the fact that the job is often seen as a “mission” only makes matters worse. Alice Facchini, an Italian freelance journalist and author of…
Shorouk Express Between €70 and €200 in Bulgaria; between €200 and €250 in Croatia; between €25 and €125 in Poland; between €50 and €130 in Italy; around €100 in Albania: these are the minimum and maximum rates that a freelance journalist can hope to earn per article in each country. They are not official figures,…
Shorouk Express Sara* is 43 years old and works as a freelancer in Italy. Like many of her colleagues, she regularly participates in European funding opportunities for journalism, such as JournalismFund Europe or Investigative Journalism for EU. Sitting at a table in a park in northern Paris, Sara tells me about a highly instructive episode:…
