CORRECTIV.Exile

CORRECTIV.Exile is a growing platform where journalists in exile exchange ideas, collaborate on investigations, and gain visibility in Germany. As a telescope for the future of democracy, we illuminate authoritarian threats by bringing together critical voices from exile and thus exposing the dangers to free societies.

Open Call for Participants

Your story matters. Are you a journalist, artist or writer living in exile in Germany? Then let’s bring your perspective on stage! For Exile Talks: Storytelling Night in Berlin we are now looking for strong, personal stories around the theme “What We Carry”. Six speakers, five minutes each, one stage.
Apply now by November 1st!

News from CORRECTIV.Exile

Events series

Exile Talks: Stand Up!

Stay informed about Exile Talks and our investigative work.

Programs and Initiatives

Exile Media Project

Radio Sakharov

Radio Sakharov: A Russian-language internet radio and podcast platform, founded with exiled members of the Sakharov Center, focusing on Russian social issues and democratic values.

Exile Media Project

#ÖZGÜRÜZ

#ÖZGÜRÜZ: A Turkish-language platform broadcasting into Turkey, supporting freedom of expression through collaboration with the Peace Nobel Prize-nominated journalist Can Dündar.

Exile Media Project

Kara Kutu

Kara Kutu permanently preserves Turkish digital media content on the blockchain, creating a censorship-resistant archive that protects public memory and makes valuable sources accessible to researchers and journalists.

CORRECTIV.Exile Publications

Europe

First the Broadcaster: Why Autocrats Target Broadcasting

In the Saxony-Anhalt state election, the AfD secured 43.8 percent of the vote, and their first pledge is to terminate the state broadcasting treaties. Why do authoritarian parties target public service broadcasting first? In her native Slovakia, our author witnessed how a broadcaster was hollowed out within 18 months, without anyone having to storm the newsroom. A look at Hungary, Poland, and Italy reveals a recurring playbook behind this and what Germany can learn from it. 02.11.26

International

The Tradwife: The Kitchen Is the Front Line

In authoritarian regimes, the “tradwife” trend is more than just a social media aesthetic: Behind the idyllic family scenes and dough-kneading lies a low-cost propaganda strategy that portrays submission as a free choice.31.08.26

International

Terrorizing the Indigenous: Russian Repression Against Its Own Nations

Russia’s Indigenous communities live on territories rich in oil, gas, and other natural resources, but their legal power to protect those lands has steadily disappeared. Those who resist industrial expansion and defend Indigenous rights are increasingly treated as threats to state security. 17.08.26

International

What we miss when we say “the Kurds”

Kurdish identity is often treated as one thing. In reality, like many other national and ethnic identities, it is shaped by borders, languages, religions, regions, parties, memories and competing political dreams.14.07.26

International

Nowhere to Exist: Queer and Trans Afghans on The Move

An Escape is meant to bring people from danger to safety. For queer and trans Afghans, however, it does not. Instead, it leads them from Taliban rule to familial control, to regional deportation regimes, to bureaucratic indifference—a chain without any moment of arrival.22.05.26

International

Made in Moscow: The Foreign Agent Law as a Blueprint for Autocrats

It is not a secret weapon or a military tactic. It is a law — bureaucratic, dull, and devastatingly effective. Russia’s 2012 foreign agent legislation gave autocrats everywhere a template for dismantling civil society while keeping their hands seemingly clean. 07.05.26

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CORRECTIV.Exile Events

Completed Projects and Events

Afghan Media Incubator

A programme supporting exiled Afghan journalists in acquiring the skills needed to establish and sustainably operate their own media projects — with a particular focus on public interest orientation, media diversity, and sustainable business models. The project was financially supported by JX Fund and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

Exile Talks 2025

In 2025, we organised 16 events in Berlin as well as in Essen, Dortmund and Cologne, reaching over 500 participants with speakers from 16 countries. Topics ranged from Belarusian exile media and Russian disinformation to the protest movement in Iran and media freedom in Turkey, through to the fight for free media in the South Caucasus and the coverage of migration in German media. In addition to panel discussions, CORRECTIV.Exile offered hands-on workshops and a special “Stand Up!” evening featuring nine speakers from countries including Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Sudan. Partner organisations such as Dekoder e.V., Meduza, JX Fund, N-Ost, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and Schauspiel Köln contributed to the programme’s thematic diversity. We were supported by Erasmus, Engagement Global, the Friends of the Böll Foundation, and GLS Treuhand.

Our Mission and Vision

Strengthening Independent Journalism

CORRECTIV.Exile develops projects that support journalists in exile: we organise public events, build a collaborative network for joint investigations, and raise the visibility of their work in Germany.

Exile Journalism as a Pillar of Democracy

Exiled media professionals act like a telescope—they often recognise threats to democracy and freedom of expression before they become widely visible. Their knowledge, research, and perspectives enrich public discourse, expose grievances, and promote press freedom. The initiatives of exiled journalists are crucial to bringing insights to light and preparing societies for future challenges.