Journalists from Eastern Europe are all too familiar with trying to navigate political leaders and their cronies have fostered a culture of propaganda and falsehood in a bid to silence independent med...
Cristian Lupsa
Cristian Lupşa is the founder and editor of DoR (Decât o Revistă), a quarterly magazine devoted to narrative journalism and telling the stories of modern day Romania. He also writes, lectures, and trains people on the transformational impact true stories can have on a culture still seeking its identity.
Cristian graduated from the University of Bucharest in 2003, and then, in 2005, earned an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, the world’s oldest journalism school. He returned to Romania in 2007, and joined Esquire Romania as a senior editor. In 2009, Cristian and a group of rebellious journalists started DoR, a magazine – though some would call it a movement – predicated on the idea that good nonfiction storytelling can change people and communities. In 2011, continuing the mission of DoR, they started The Power of Storytelling, an international storytelling conference which has grown to be the largest in the region. Cristian is also an alumni of Aspen Institute Romania’s Young Leaders program. He spent the 2013-2014 academic year as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Shortly after Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the term “fake news” went viral as a way to discredit and vilify media. According to a recent piece by the New York Times he tweeted the phr...
Across Europe, huge audience sit – often in national theaters – and experience journalism: reported stories augmented with audio, video and live music and put together in a new genre you could cal...
The session will explore different ways in which press freedom is threatened and how that translates into innovative media projects in the CEE region. We are going to talk about the polarization and i...
Against a backdrop of staff burnouts, poor working-life balance, lack of professional development and, generally, a lot of frustration, it is urgent to rethink how newsroom culture impacts journalists...
