Penelope Winterhager is Managing Director of the JX Fund – the European Fund for Journalism in Exile – which supports exiled media outlets from countries where independent reporting is no longer possible. Without exiled media, censorship and propaganda would prevail. The JX Fund collects and curates knowledge and data on the needs and the impact of exiled media, conducts research, networks, matches and promotes. It bases its interventions for exiled media on this data and provides support, financially and structurally. Since its launch in April 2022 it has supported over 85 media to get up and running in exile. As a joint initiative by Reporters without Borders, Rudolf-Augstein-Foundation and Schoepflin-Foundation, it is supported by a broad alliance of media, civil society organizations, and an extensive donor pool.

Before building up the JX Fund, Penelope Winterhager was chief creative officer and publishing director of Tagesspiegel, a leading Berlin newspaper. Prior to that she led the communication agencies Scholz & Friends as managing director and FCB as president Germany.

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