Ways to support independent media on February 9. And every day

We inter­viewed Belaru­sian edi­to­r­i­al offices and pre­pared a small guide on how to sup­port jour­nal­ists and the media on Feb­ru­ary 9. And on oth­er days too.

#Stand­With­Be­larus

Support editorial offices or journalists financially

Mind that it is not always safe to do this in Belarus. Some media web­sites do not fea­ture dona­tion or sub­scrip­tion but­tons. Here are some cam­paigns you can donate to:

Sup­port BAJ

Sup­port Zerka­lo

Sup­port Nar­o­d­naya Volia

Sup­port Bel­sat jour­nal­ists

Sup­port Kyky

Sup­port The Vil­lage Belarus

Sup­port Euro­ra­dio

Sup­port Medi­a­Sol, a com­pa­ny that helps jour­nal­ists

Send letters, telegrams, and commissary money to people in jail

33 media rep­re­sen­ta­tives are behind bars at the moment. These are employ­ees of dif­fer­ent edi­to­r­i­al offices, but each one of them would appre­ci­ate sup­port from the out­side. For some of our col­leagues, the jail staff is set­ting up a real infor­ma­tion block­ade, ille­gal­ly restrict­ing cor­re­spon­dence. There­fore, every word of sol­i­dar­i­ty is impor­tant.

Our tips:

• send reg­is­tered mail

• be sure to spec­i­fy the sender’s address and name

• do not dis­cuss polit­i­cal issues in let­ters.

Oth­er­wise, the let­ters have very lit­tle chance of get­ting to the recip­i­ent. The cur­rent address­es of all our col­leagues in cap­tiv­i­ty are avail­able HERE.

Follow, share news, and communicate with the editors

Most media name sta­ble com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the audi­ence, despite intim­i­da­tion and block­ing, as the main source of sup­port for them­selves. To sup­port a pub­li­ca­tion, you can fol­low it on Telegram, share news from their site and send inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion to the edi­to­r­i­al office, if you come across any­thing news­wor­thy. Use VPN if you access media web­sites from Belarus!

Here is the col­lec­tion of the most pop­u­lar Belaru­sian media.

1reg.by
Belmarket.by
Belsat.eu
Gazetaby.info
Gs.by
Euroradio.fm
Hrodna.life
Intex-press.by
Kyky.org
Media-polesye.by
Mediazona.by
Nashaniva.com
Novychas.online
Nv-online.info
Reform.by
Sn-plus.com
Svaboda.org
The Vil­lage Беларусь
Zerkalo.io