M100 Alumni

In the M100 Alumni Group, former participants of the M100 Young European Journalists Workshops (M100YEJ) organise themselves to network even more closely with each other and actively exchange ideas on topics such as democracy, press freedom and journalism, climate change, factchecking, data, education and much more. Together we want to launch projects and initiate and conduct seminars and intergenerational debates with other partners. The alumni are a diverse group from many regions in Europe, working in TV, audio, print, online, science and education.

Urtė Alksninytė

Freelance Journalist
Lithuania

Hamza Amin

Doctoral Researcher
University of Vienna
Austria

Lucian Bălănuță

Journalist at Radio România Iași
Assistant professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Romania

Nevena Borisova

Freelance Journalist
E-vestnik.bg
Bulgarien

Lorenzo Canu

Intern
European Association of Communication Agencies (EACA) in Brussels
Italy

Sara Cincurova

Human Rights Journalist
Slovakia

Mila Damyanoska

Digital media expert
SEM Specialist
North Macedonia

Piotr Drabik

Journalist
RadioZET.pl
Poland

Victoria Graul

Online editor
Founder and Host Podcast „Digga Fake – Fake News & Fact-Checking”
Germany

Luciana Grosu

Freelance Reporter
Romania

Ani Hovhannisyan

Project Manager at Hetq Media Factory
Armenia

Anastasiia Ivantsova

Editor-in-Chief
AIN.Business
Ukraine

Olga Konsevych

Editor-in-chief
Channel 24
Ukraine

Konstantinos Koulocheris

Senior Media Analyst
Kantar (Media Division)
UK/Greece

Nikita Kulikov

Student
Journalism
Moscow State University
Russia

Sayyara Mammadova

Fact Checker
Teyit
Azerbaijan

Wiem Melki

Regional Communications Officer (Tunisia-Somaliland)
SPARK
Tunisia

Szilvia Mohai

English Translator
Hungary

Goshe Nikolov

Journalist
Meta News Agency
Macedonia

Anna Paul

Digital Editor, Writer, Communications Specialist
Metro
UK

Karol Pawłowicki

Strategic Communications Associate
European Climate Foundation
Poland

Adriano Rodari

Student ׀ Intern
University of Bologna ׀ Embassy of Italy to Estonia
Italy

Anna Romandash

Freiberufliche Journalistin
Ukraine

Anton Ruliou

Project Coordinator
Belarus in Focus Information Office
Belarus

Anna Saraste

Freelance broadcast journalist
DW | Yle
Finland/Germany

Tamar Svanidze

Multimedia Journalist
Georgia

Andreea Tănasie

Master’s Student
European Policy
University of Amsterdam
Romania

Maria Caroline Wölfle

Freelance Journalist
Germany

I am very moved, especially because I was not expecting to hear these words, which are like an embrace for me. So I want to thank you for this award, for the incredibly moving words of Giovanni di Lorenzo, for this wonderful sky that has welcomed me to Potsdam, and also to thank the Federal Chancellor for her touching words, and for her encouraging presence. Because the awareness raised heartens me a lot more than words. Roberto Saviano, M100 Media Award laureate 2016
It is a great honour for me to be here and receive this great price. It's a very big day for me. I thank Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dr. Joachim Gauck for the kind and strong words, and for their appreciation. Thank you, I will never forget this day! Kurt Westergaard, danish cartoonist, M100 Media Award laureate 2010
At the same time, today’s prize is an appeal to all persons who hold positions of responsibility in governments, in culture and in the media: be steadfast, value-oriented and also COURAGEOUS when irresponsible persons and powers undermine or relativise our values of freedom. It is a virtue to yield to a convincing argument, but it is cowardice to yield to a threat from enemies of freedom. Joachim Gauck in his laudation to Kurt Westergaard, 2010
I receive [this award] with an immense joy, happiness and humility also, because I think by being with you today here, I am receiving this price in the name of those who are still suffering in the jungle of Colombia and of those in the world that are living in similar conditions and who cannot speak for themselves freely. Ingrid Betancourt, M100 Media Award laureate 2008
But I have to say that in our modern society the media has a very, very particular responsibility, also for the European idea. And I hope that the event today – and the events which will follow – will help us to communicate better, to explain better and to convince people that Europe – and acknowledging all the problems, the mistakes and the deficits – […] that at the end of the day the idea of European integration is the best idea that we have ever developed in our history. Günther Verheugen, former EU-Commissioner, in his keynote speech 2005

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