Ides Debruyne

Ides Debruyne is co-founder of the non-profit organization Journalismfund.eu (formerly the Belgian Pascal Decroos Fund for Investigative Journalism) and the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists (VVOJ.nl).  He is co-organizer of the European Investigative Journalism Conference (Dataharvest.eu) and one of the people behind the cross-border journalism course, International Research Journalism (Belgium-The Netherlands). In 2013, he and his colleague Brigitte Alfter won the Prize for the Freedom and Future of Media. He is the founder and chair of de Vlaamse Scriptieprijs (to promote science communication) and de Vlaamse Scriptiebank (to promote open access).