Working Together Across Borders
Arena for Journalism in Europe supports collaborative journalism – journalists working together across geographical borders, and journalists working across professional borders with scholars, scientists, and with civil society.
We believe that collaborative journalism is crucial to knowledge sharing, critical thinking and political life in European societies. We build European networks, create cross-border meeting spaces, and spread the tools and experiences of collaborative projects.
The core activities of Arena are:
The Conferences
Planning and organizing Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference (next May 28-31, 2026) and the Climate Arena Conference (next Oct. 10-11, 2025, in Budapest.).
The Networks
Facilitating open networks for information sharing to help journalists to collaborate across borders.
The Academy
Educating and knowledge sharing about cross-border collaborative journalism through training, publishing articles, speaking, developing educational materials and advising on cross-border collaborative journalism education.
Latest News
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Whistleblowers, data and false solutions: Collaborating on climate justice at Climate Arena 2025
Over an unusually sunny mid-October weekend, journalists and scientists from across Europe gathered again in 2025 for the fourth Climate Arena conference. This year we were in Budapest, where specialist environment and climate reporters came together for panels, workshops and networking sessions that delivered practical tools, project ideas and behind-the-scenes revelations. Arena’s signature theme of…
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‘First of its kind’: Behind the scenes of Green to Grey’s groundbreaking data investigation
We’ve described our latest cross-border collaborative journalism project, Green to Grey, as an investigation that is the ‘first of its kind’. That’s a big claim – so, let us explain what we mean. When we launched the project, we outlined the story of how it came about: inspired by the Norwegian broadcaster NRK’s original investigation…
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Arena’s ‘Green to Grey’ project reveals scale of Europe’s nature loss
Our collaboration with 11 newsrooms shows Europe’s undeveloped land is disappearing up to 1.5 times faster than previously thought, equivalent to 600 football pitches per day.
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Climate Arena Fellows begin investigations ahead of 2025 conference
This weekend, the 2025 Climate Arena Fellows met for the first time. By all accounts, the group has seen a fruitful start to their collaborative, cross-border climate and environmental investigations. On 12-13 September, in Bratislava, Slovakia, our latest fellows cohort came together to get to know each other, receive an overview of cross-border, collaborative journalism…