The Arena Housing Project
As the Arena Housing Project was an open collaborative network for journalists and researchers working on housing across Europe. It was created following up on the 2019 Dataharvest conference to facilitate and promote cross-border journalism and research to investigate the transnational dimension of the housing crisis in Europe. Read why we initiated the housing project, and read the vision for the Arena Housing Network summarised by founding coordinator Jose Miguel Calatayud for the Nieman Reports.
Arena for Journalism in Europe coordinated the award winning “Cities for Rent: Investigating Corporate Landlords Across Europe“, an investigation over 7 months done by a team of over 25 investigative and data journalists and visualisations experts from 16 European countries.
If you have any questions or comments, or if you want access to the tools for network members, please write info@journalismarena.eu.
The Arena Housing Project has now developed into the Urban Journalism Network.
The Algorithm Network
Algorithms are increasingly making decisions in society, and that was the topical focus of Dataharvest 2018. In cooperation with the German NGO Algorithmwatch, the Dataharvest team drafted a focused track about journalism covering the field. The track offered seven sessions addressing automated decision making and how to research it.
After the conference, Algorithmwatch asked Arena director Brigitte Alfter to gather and coordinate the first team of journalists and academics who, over the autumn of 2018, prepared the stocktaking report ”Automating Society”, launched in January 2019. Since then, Algorithmwatch has been running the network.
The purpose of preparing the report in a team effort rather than by one expert was twofold: To produce a genuinely European report, and by doing so to develop a European team of dedicated journalists knowing each other so well they would consider working on these topics in the future.