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A new year for collaborative journalism

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Shaken by crises as we are these years, we, journalists, obviously must sometimes stop and think: How do we best act here? Journalism as usual does not seem quite enough in these times. So for 2024, we are looking forward to developing our profession, to keep exploring new paths, and to focusing on the urgent … Read more

Arena partners with IJ4EU to support cross-border journalism teams

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Arena for Journalism is very happy to announce we are now an official partner in the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) program, and we look forward to providing training, support and match-making for cross-border journalism teams. Now in its fifth edition, IJ4EU is a major project to support cross-border journalism in Europe with funding, and opportunities … Read more

Scaling up our Climate Arena Conference

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Earlier this year we hosted our first Climate Arena Conference, where we brought together 55 journalists and climate scientists for two days of workshops and collaboration focused entirely on climate reporting. Topics ranged from investigating the carbon offsetting industry’s dubious claims, to journalism-science collaborations, to using data to tell climate stories, and much more. Following … Read more

“Collaboration is the new normal”: Arena at GIJC23

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Last week the Arena for Journalism in Europe team travelled to Gothenburg to discuss the future of collaborative journalism at the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference. So it was a delight when Marina Walker Guevara from the Pulitzer Center opened the conference with the words “Collaboration is the new normal.” We saw this throughout the conference, … Read more

Introducing the Collaborative Desk: dedicated support for your cross-border team

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Cross-border journalism is a powerful way for research to have a big impact, but conducting it successfully presents a unique set of challenges, from coordinating teams to maintaining secure technical infrastructure. Arena for Journalism in Europe is today launching a solution to these eternal needs for cross-border projects: The Collaborative Desk. This initiative aims to … Read more

Arena gets new managing director

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Sanne Schim van der Loeff joins the management of Arena for Journalism in Europe.

Sanne Schim van der Loeff (Photo: Marlene Fröhlich)

We are very happy to present the new managing director for Arena for Journalism in Europe: Sanne Schim van der Loeff will join the team from April 1 (full time from May 1) and constitute the management team together with our current director Brigitte Alfter. Brigitte will in the future concentrate on the editorial and journalistic development of Arena, while Sanne will focus on the organizational and financial sides of development.

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