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| Type | Online newspaper |
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| Publisher | Journalists for the Future |
Editor-in-chief | Lasha Tughushi[1] |
| Founded | September 2011 |
| Language | English, Georgian and Russian |
| Headquarters | Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Country | Georgia (country) |
| Website | dfwatch |
Democracy & Freedom Watch is an online newspaper based in Tbilisi and published by the Georgian NGO Journalists for the Future (Georgian: ჟურნალისტები მომავალისთვის). It carries news stories, political commentary and reports on the democratic development in Georgia and its neighboring territories.[1]
Overview
[edit]The trilingual website publishes in English, Georgian and Russian.
Apart from news stories about Georgia, the site also covers Russia's North Caucasus republics, as well as the disputed territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Funding
[edit]Democracy & Freedom Watch has received funding from the Open Society Foundation,[when?][citation needed] indirectly from the National Endowment for Democracy in 2015 via Journalists for the Future,[2]: 49 and from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.[when?][citation needed] DFWatch receives some revenue from online advertising.[when?][citation needed] In 2025, DFWatch stated that it "do[esn't] take donor money" and that its funds come "entirely" from readers.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "About us". DF Watch. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ↑ NED Annual Report 2015, 19 September 2016, Wikidata Q136445378, archived from the original on 6 October 2025
- ↑ Support our independent journalism, Democracy & Freedom Watch, 2025, Wikidata Q136445656
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