New Cross-Border Journalism Project Strengthens Local News Coverage
A unique collaboration between German and Dutch media organizations aims to provide citizens in the border region
with more relevant and accessible news from their own area. This project, focused on strengthening local journalism, will
actively create and exchange content and highlight themes that are characteristic of border regions. Citizens have
expressed a need for cross-border news. This project will meet that need by combining journalistic strength and reach.
During the project period, the goal is to produce over 3,500 cross-border publications. The project partners reach a total
of 1,053,832 people online each week and have a print circulation of 590,090 households.
At a time when local journalism is under pressure and major publishers are centralizing, reliable and independent
journalism is increasingly recognized as essential to the functioning of democracy. This project aims to lay a solid
foundation for German-Dutch regional journalism in the border area through collaboration between media organizations
on both sides of the border. The project focuses on informing citizens and gives them an active role through a Fieldlab.
Citizens help define journalistic themes from the border region. Various groups form a citizen editorial board. The
Fieldlab connects media with citizens in the Euregio, ensuring that news coverage continues to serve the public interest.
