Independent public-interest journalism faces unprecedented challenges to its sustainability. That is why we need to learn from each other and build on existing experiences and work across regions. Thi...
Brigitte Alfter
Brigitte Alfter is a senior German-Danish journalist and director of Arena for Journalism in Europe. Having practiced journalism for more than a decade at local, national and European level, she realised the need for cross-border collaborative journalism structures. Since 2008, she has developed European support and infrastructures for cross-border journalism. She combines journalism practice, entrepreneurial activities, teaching/training and academic research.
Events IJF 2025
Cross-field collaboration: how and why journalists and civil-society organizations around the world are working together
The panel will outline findings from a recently completed research project looking at collaboration between civil society and journalism organizations. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundatio...
How do data journalists work? Who do they collaborate with, and what are the latest trends and sought after skills within the field? These are just some of the questions The State of Data Journalism S...
Women are represented in (only) one quarter of the news published around the world. Newsrooms are generally dominated by male editors-in-chief. Yet, in Europe in recent years, some of the coolest and ...
Let’s rebuild the European local media ecosystem: infrastructure for thriving community media
beabee is a collaborative open source and privacy-first software and community project. We want to bring organisations together who share our mission to empower more people across Europe to start and ...
Challenging old habits through open access collaborative journalism: the case of housing
From the climate crisis, to migration to the rise of the platform economy to many other topics, stories and relevant issues are more and more transnational in nature, and journalists need to and do co...
If technology innovation were a pizza, everyone is trying to eat the same slice. Most innovations are being sent to the big media houses and research centers, and most efforts are trying to update exi...
In this panel, Hostwriter, an open network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders, will discuss the importance of bringing different voices to the table in a panel of global journ...
Stories don’t stop at national borders. More collaboration in the field of journalism is essential, as topics like global crime, climate change, or migration affect people, regions and economies acr...
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