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Are you an exiled media professional? This toolkit is for you
If you are an exiled media professional, you know — or will eventually find out — how challenging setting up a media organization abroad can be. Especially if you don’t speak the language of the country you are now living in. Perhaps the most important decision you will make is the type of organization you…
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NEMO returns to Perugia to advocate for exiled media
A year after officially launching the Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO), we returned to Italy to continue advocating for the exiled media ecosystem. In 2024, our participation in Perugia’s International Journalism Festival included a side event with donors and media development organizations, and three panels about the realities and challenges of exiled media. NEMO’s…
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Five challenges exiled media face when reporting from abroad
Fleeing a country is, perhaps, one of the last decisions that independent journalists want to make. It implies renouncing the one thing that makes their reporting truly valuable: being on the ground. But for many, witnessing events as they unfold —and telling the world about them— represents a great danger to their lives. Under these…
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Are social media platforms hurting exiled media? A conversation with Ole Chavannes
In the pursuit of sustainability, exiled media outlets face multiple challenges. Many newsrooms have concluded, for example, that generating income from traditional advertising is almost impossible because local companies prefer to avoid retaliations from authoritarian governments. Under these circumstances, one of the most logical steps for exiled media is to experiment with programmatic advertising. But…
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Why is exiled media so different? An interview with Sudeshna Chanda
Part of advocating for the exiled media landscape consists of explaining —in different spaces and platforms— what is the nature, peculiarities, and challenges of news organizations that have been forced to operate outside of their home countries. The Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO) sees this effort as a means for audiences, donors, and supporters…
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Lessons in membership models for exiled media
Cinthia Membreño, from Confidencial (Nicaragua), shared her experience in building a membership model, in a conversation with NEMO member, Zamaneh Media.
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NEMO at RightsCon 2023
RightsCon is one of the largest conferences at the intersection of human rights and digital rights. It has been organized by AccessNow since 2011 and draws thousands of participants and speakers from around the world. RightsCon 2023 took place in San Jose, Costa Rica, and among the attendees were four of the five founding members…
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Op-Ed on DVB: ‘Exiled Media Unite’
This piece was written by Ole Chavannes on the website of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) on the 26th of April, 2023. “Harsh and tyrannical laws are worse even than a fierce tiger”, wrote Confucius around the year 500 BC in the The Book of Rites. The Chinese philosopher and politician was forced by a neighboring…
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We officially launched NEMO at Perugia’s International Journalism Festival
Exiled media outlets around the world have been serving people in repressive environments with independent, fact-based news for decades now. From Myanmar to Iran, from Nicaragua to Azerbaijan, from Sudan to Russia, from Belarus to Syria… and many more. Exiled media’s value to the world goes beyond making news available to those who would otherwise…
