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Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter is the director of Arena for Journalism in Europe, supporting collaborative and investigative journalism in Europe. She was a Brussels correspondent for Danish daily Dagbladet Information from 2004-2008. Having practiced journalism for more than a decade on local, national and European level, she realised the need for cross-border collaborative journalism structures. From 2008 onwards, she developed a European support- and infrastructure for cross-border journalism at Journalismfund.eu, where she was a managing editor and developed cross-border journalism work grants and the European Investigative Journalism Conference & Dataharvest. She is the author of Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism: a step-by-step guide and combines journalism practice, networking activities and academic work. 

Summer Conference Event
 — Workshop

Developing Cross-Border Ideas

Cross-border stories – wow… but how do you get started? In this workshop we discuss the quality of cross-border journalism ideas: how to systematically develop a cross-border story, how to deal with cross-border aspects of a local story, and how to find potential team members to further develop the story idea with.
Summer Conference Event
 — Discussion

Cross-Border Journalism Case Studies

Cross-border collaborative journalism has proven to be a powerful method: Panama Papers, Football Leaks or Implant Files have set the political agenda and lead to significant societal change. Our panel have worked extensively on cross-border stories and will share their experiences with you using examples of stories they’ve recently worked on.
Summer Conference Event
 — Workshop

Cross-Border Journalism – Everybody can learn it

If you’re impressed by large cross-border stories like CumEx Files, Panama Papers or Malta Files, don’t be daunted. It is a method everybody can learn. In this workshop Brigitte Alfter gives an introduction to the basic considerations of cross-border collaborative journalism, the levels of intensity and the process from idea to publication and beyond.