ORGANISATIONS

Arena for Journalism in Europe supports collaborative journalism – journalists working together across geographical borders, and journalists working across professional borders with scholars, scientists, and with civil society.

Attending the Media Village will be:

Brigitte Alfter is a senior German-Danish journalist, founder and director for Arena for Journalism in Europe and lecturer at the University of Gothenburg. Having practiced journalism on local, national and European level, she realised the need for cross-border collaborative journalism structures.

Since 2003, she thus has developed European support- and infrastructures for cross-border journalism along her own journalism practice.

Today, she combines journalism practice including editorial advice and mentoring, entrepreneurial activities, teaching/training and academic research.

Deborah Meibergen is a digital security trainer and IT coordinator at Arena for Journalism in Europe's, Collaborative Desk. Next to teaching people about digital security and coordinating IT or projects, she also has experience with writing and implementing information security policies and performing risk assessments.

Self-taught, Deborah has worked in the arts, digital rights, information security, cyber security, investigative journalism and the FOSS community for 20+ years. As an activist, she's vocal about defending human rights, inequality, digital security and privacy, especially important in this age of surveillance capitalism and authoritarianism.