the Wobbing Europe 'wobsite'
Wobbing Europe: Freedom of Information for good stories
Wobbing.eu aims to inspire and support journalists to use their right of freedom of information as a journalistic tool.
Wobbing.eu aims to build a network, where journalists who use freedom of information legislation can meet and exchange experiences.
Wobbing.eu aims to watch developments of freedom of information legislation in order to further stronger legislation useful for journalists.
Wobbing is a verb, it is Dutch journalist’s slang expression for Freedom of Information or Access to Documents legislation. It derives from the name of the Dutch and Flemish laws: Wet van Openbaarheid van Bestuur, which means Law about the Openness of the Administration.
Wobbing.eu is a trademark-protected name in the Benelux.
The Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund runs Wobbing Europe. The Pascal Decroos Fund is an independent Belgian-Flemish foundation working for special journalism and funded by the Flemish Government. It provides grants to journalists for investigative and special research projects, in print and audio-visual media in Dutch language in Belgium.
Pascal Decroos was a special journalist with special ideas. He was born in Ostend (Belgium) on 20 April 1964 and died in Brussels (Belgium) on 2 December 1997. Pascal Decroos is the exponent of a new generation of journalists. Someone with a passion for journalism and committed to the case of the weaker in our society. In the course of his professional career, Pascal Decroos earns himself the reputation of being a critical, inventive television journalist. His creed is: do not let yourself be carried along the stream of superficial news, but submerge. Do not content yourself with drawing the obvious conclusion, but investigate and probe until you find the truth.
Wobbing Europe, Editor Brigitte Alfter
The Pascal Decroos Fund for Investigative Journalism, Director Ides Debruyne
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Belgium
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