An organisation devoted to maintaining freedom of the press handed out several thousand euro over the course of the summer to provide for the basic needs of independent journalists and their families.

Several of the journalists receiving the grants from Reporters Without Borders are no longer reporting news from the country of their respective persecution - with some living in exile while others had been imprisoned, according to IFEX. The connection between the fiscal crisis of Western media and the dire need of the journalists in developing or war-torn countries, if any, was not made apparent by the organisation's grant announcement.