Inspiring Workshop Trainers will support our 15 young participants from Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia on the topic of “How to finance Independent Journalism”

1 September, 2017. Just one week from now, the M100 Young European Journalists Workshop will begin! We look forward to inspiring workshops by our Trainers on the topic of “How to finance Independent Journalism – Education, Platforms, Business Models”. Our 15 participants from the Eastern Partnership countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, as well as from Russia, face challenges with freedom of press and independent journalism in their home countries. We therefore aim to support them and provide them with information about the financing options available in their home countries and on models that are suitable for their ideas and potential readers, enabling them to realise their journalistic projects and support democratic processes. For more information, find here the agenda of the #M100YEJ.

These are our amazing Workshop Trainers:

Brigitte Alfter is a German-Danish journalist and covered European affairs for two decades on local, national and European level. She started out as a local journalist and was a Brussels correspondent for Danish daily newspaper Information from 2004-2008. She has worked in several cross-border teams including ICIJ-teams. Since 2007 she has developed the European activities of Journalismfund.eu, a Belgian organisation working for in-depth, independent journalism in Europe. Her ‘Handbook in cross-border journalism’ was published in Danish in 2015 and in German in 2017. She has a track record of teaching journalism at all levels – from school children to university and mid-career.
www.alfter.dkwww.journalismfund.eu

Galina Timchenko: Russian journalist, who has worked for Russia’s leading newspaper, Kommersant, and Russia’s top news and reporting website Lenta.ru. For political reasons, she was removed from her position by Lenta’s owner in 2014. Galina Timchenko subsequently established the online Russian-language media, Meduza, which provides an alternative to information from state-controlled outlets and Internet bots employed by the Kremlin. Galina Timchenko was awarded with The Fritt Ord Foundation and the ZEIT-Stiftung Press Prize in 2014.
https://meduza.io/

Jakub Górnicki is a blogger, reporter, technologist and combines new technologies with journalism, blogging, government accountability and transparency. Jakub established Outriders to bridge cultures and societies by original reporting and providing global perspective through innovative storytelling. As a COO and board member of ePaństwo Foundation he developed it into leading open data/transpareny NGO globally. During six years he established Code for Poland and took it into Code for All together with Code for America. Open Cities – program helping European cities adopt open data policies as well as Personal Democracy Forum in CEE and TransparenCEE. He remains a strong ambassador of Central Eastern Europe.
http://outride.rs

Justin Varilek is the CEO and founder of HackPack.press, the global platform enabling media outlets and companies to find, hire and manage media professionals around the world. Currently the community covers 140 countries with over 8000 journalists, photographers and videographers. He previously worked as a journalist at The Moscow Times and helped found the communications department for Skoltech, a global university established in collaboration with MIT in Moscow. He has also rebuilt the US press office for Acronis, a global software company.
http://hackpack.press