The Tolerant is a European digital media outlet built on a simple premise: what connects us matters more than what divides us.
We cover the issues that shape life across the continent: democracy, migration, climate, housing, culture… through the people who live them.
We believe in slow journalism that gives a story the space it needs to be nuanced.
Europe is not only Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Frankfurt. It is twenty-seven countries, hundreds of languages, and an enormous shared project that is, depending on the day, inspiring and infuriating in equal measure. The Tolerant exists to find the common threads without flattening the differences.
In every long-form piece we publish, we ask how that topic looks from at least three individual cases in three different countries of the Union. Because European legislation and European reality are rarely the same thing, and that gap is where our most relevant journalism lives.
The Tolerant was founded by a small team of journalists with experience across international newsrooms and media entrepreneurship. We come from different countries and different editorial traditions. We share the conviction that European journalism is both necessary and underserved.
We are independent from any media conglomerate, organisation or political party. Our funding comes from our readers and other sources of revenue aligned with our values.
Our editorial line is anchored in the founding values of the European Union: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. We aim to document if these values are upheld in today’s Europe.
Content is produced primarily in English, and will soon be translated into Spanish, German and French. All translations are editorially reviewed versions of the same story. We are committed to expanding to all official EU languages as we grow.
We use artificial intelligence only to support editorial workflows, personalise reader experiences and moderate community spaces. Every word published under The Tolerant was edited by a human being.
Independent journalism depends on transparent funding. We will publish our revenue breakdown annually so that our readers can see exactly where our money comes from and draw their own conclusions about our editorial independence.
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