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 and the Climate Arena Conference.
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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The ‘invisibles’: Arena publishes Paper on decline of labour journalism
Arena’s Director Brigitte Alfter, and freelance journalist Jose Miguel Calatayud map the structural forces behind, and potential remedies for, the decline of labour journalism across Europe.
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Arena Academy launches online course series
Arena for Journalism in Europe has been supporting journalists to collaborate across borders for more than 15 years. Our Arena Academy has a strong track record training people in-person with fellowships, academic courses, and residencies. Now, Arena is launching our Online Academy with a seven week course: Your First Cross-border Investigation, adapted from our flagship cross-border…
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“Clear agreements, long friendships”: Dataharvest’s best year yet?
“Robert Gebeloff from the New York Times opened his 2026 Dataharvest panel by saying that this is the best conference in the world”, according to Maximilian Hatzl’s write-up. “I can only agree.” The Arena team were delighted to hear this, alongside the wider praise for this year’s conference; in post-conference reflections, several attendees claim 2026…
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The ‘Matchmaker’: How Arena powers investigation and collaboration
Many of Europe’s most expansive, illuminating investigations did not begin in a newsroom. They began in an auditorium, with an idea sparked by a quote on a powerpoint slide; or in a coffee shop, brainstormed with two new colleagues from across the continent; or over a beer, at the end of a long conference day,…