Journalist, author, lecturer:
Founder and editorial director of Arena for Journalism in Europe, the organisation behind the annual Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference and Arena Networks.
Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg.
Current fields of interest:
Cross border and collaborative journalism; innovation in journalism; digitalisation of societies; European affairs and regulation; political economy.
Some previous positions:
2008-2018 Journalismfund.eu, a support structure for in-depth, innovative and independent journalism in Europe. Initially invited to develop the European activities, later chairperson and managing editor.
2008-2012 Freelance cross border journalism with teams of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ, own initiative teams and filmmakers.
2004-2008 Four years in Brussels working as EU-correspondent for Danish daily Information.
Co-founded or co-developed several European journalism and data journalism projects, including the follow-the-money Farmsubsidy.org project – that for the first time in the history of the EU brought to light beneficiaries of the annual billion Euro subsidies to the farming industry, and the annual European Investigative Journalism & Dataharvest Conference, where some of the most courageous and innovative journalists from all over Europe meet to learn from each other and to collaborate across borders.
Brigitte Alfter 