Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2025 | Simona Constantin Cabinet member | Media policy, protection and funding of investigative journalists | — |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Simona Constantin Cabinet member | Media policy, protection and funding of investigative journalists | SRC |
Mission & Goals
Forbidden Stories is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to continue the investigations of reporters who have been silenced through imprisonment, abduction or murder around the world. Forbidden Stories keeps the stories of silenced journalists alive through collaborative journalism. In doing so, it sends a powerful message to enemies of press freedom: killing the journalist won’t kill the story. Through the SafeBox Network mechanism, Forbidden Stories also ensures that journalists under threat can secure their information, and that their work will not disappear should anything happen to them. The aim of the organization is twofold: to deter violence against journalists, and to ensure access to information of public interest for as many people as possible around the world, on issues such as the environment, health, human rights, organized crime, corruption, armed conflict, & disinformation.
EU Legislative Interests
Forbidden Stories does not target policies or legislation, and instead works in defense of media freedom through its investigative journalism activities. The following pieces of EU legislation and regulations are however of relevance for Forbidden Stories' work: - European Data Strategy - Recommendation on the protection, safety and empowerment of journalists - European Media and Audiovisual Action Plan - European Democracy Action Plan - European Democracy Shield
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Forbidden Stories is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
Organisation Members
Forbidden Stories has built its own network of media partners (see https://forbiddenstories.org/about-us/partners/media-partners/) and of media freedom/journalists safety organizations (see https://forbiddenstories.org/about-us/partners/partner-organizations/)
Additional Information
Additional contributions over €10,000 received during the most recent closed financial year (ending August 2024) that could not be added above due to limitations in the fields of the form include: - Seattle Foundation: €37,289 - Ford Foundation: €316,356 - Isocrates Foundation: €50,000 - Reva & David Logan Foundation: €91,095 - Dutch Postcode Lottery Foundation: €600,000 - Proton: €45,124