deputy Head of Unit, EU Commission, DG Connect, Audiovisual and Media Services Policy
* Joining online!I am deputy head of unit “Audiovisual and Media Services Policy” at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT). During past 15 years at the Commission and DG Connect, I have acquired the experience...
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Director Media Programme Subsahara Africa, KAS Media Africa, South Africa
Christoph Plate is Director of the Media Programme Sub-Sahara Africa of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the 1990s he worked as contributing Africa Correspondent for the German Newsmagazine “Der Spiegel”, based in Nairobi, Kenya, reporting...
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Poland correspondent, Balkan Insight - Reporting Democracy
Claudia has been covering Poland for Balkan Insight for over one year. She has been a journalist for over a decade, writing about central and eastern Europe. She is particularly interested in social movements, women's and LBGT rights and the ultra-conservative networks working to...
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Manager, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN
Dragana Zarkovic Obradovic is director of Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in Serbia and manager of BIRN’s Reporting Democracy program, which covers CEE and the Balkan region. With extensive media experience and a strong background in project management, Dragana leads...
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IPI Executive Board Chair, Head of Programmes at the International Fund for Public Interest Media, South Africa
Khadija Patel pushes words on street corners. She is passionate about the protection and enhancement of global media as a public good and is the head of programmes at the International Fund for Public Interest Media She is the former editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian in South...
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Executive director, Fritt Ord Foundation
* Joining online!Knut Olav Åmås is the executive director of the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation. He has served as the deputy minister in the Norwegian Ministry for Culture, and as the culture and opinions editor at the daily newspaper Aftenposten. He holds a cand. philol. degree...
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Fund manager, Civitates
Marie-Laure Muchery is managing Civitates, a collaborative philanthropic initiative for democracy and solidarity in Europe created by a group of European foundations in 2018 that provide support to build the resilience of the civil society sector, initiatives that push for a healthy...
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Director, Information Democracy, OSF
As director of OSF’s Information Democracy programme, Mary Fitzgerald leads the organization’s work to advance open society values at the intersection of journalism, technology, political accountability, and free expression. She works to support high-quality journalism and address...
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Director, Limelight Foundation
* Joining online!Merel Borger is the director of Limelight Foundation, an independent philanthropic foundation, based in the Netherlands. Limelight Foundation funds and supports journalism and civil society organizations that are committed to promoting a strong and free information...
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Executive Director, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
* Joining online!Mira Milosevic is the Executive Director at Brussels-based Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD). She leads GFMD’s engagement with the United Nations, the Internet Governance Forum, and other multilateral institutions as well as GFMD’s international efforts...
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Regional Director Europe, Porticus
As Regional Director Europe, Ondrej Liska coordinates, synergises and leads Porticus' philanthropic engagement in Europe in areas as diverse as democracy and civic engagement, education, migration or just transition. In many of these fields, working with and fostering independent...
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Chief Strategy Officer, Media Development Investment Fund
Patrice Schneider, Chief Strategy Officer, started his publishing career as a journalist reporting from conflicts in Central Asia at the end of the 1980s. Before joining MDIF in 2002, within the Time Warner Group he served as Managing Director of Netscape Europe overseeing European...
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Editor-in-Chief, Eurozine
Editor-in-chief of Eurozine, Papp is a journalist specializing in environmental, social and human rights issues, author of a book on sex work and prostitution in Hungary, Aki kurvának áll: szexmunka sztorik (Once You Enrol As a Whore: Sex Work Stories, Kossuth 2017). She anchored...
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Director / Strategic Advisor, Macroscope / Journalism Funders Forum
Sameer Padania runs
Macroscope, a UK-based consultancy focused on strengthening public interest journalism and information. In 2021 he served as Lead Rapporteur for the Forum on Information and Democracy's Working Group on the sustainability of journalism, leading the global repo...
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Deputy Director, International Press Institute (IPI)
Scott Griffen is deputy director at the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and journalists defending press freedom since 1950. He is the author of numerous IPI reports on diverse topics related to press freedom and independent journalism and...
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