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Peter Georgiev

Peter Georgiev is a reporter for Bulgarian National Television and a researcher for Free Press for Eastern Europe (FPEE). Peter covers disinformation, technology, and politics for Panorama, one of the oldest and most widely known television programs in Bulgaria. As…

Jan Žabka

Jan Žabka is an investigative journalist from the Czech Republic that works for hlidacipes.org.…

Josef Šlerka

Josef Šlerka is the Head of the Department of New Media Studies at Charles University and a data analyst at Investigace.cz. He served as Director of the Czech Fund for Independent Journalism from August 2017 to April 2021 and is…

Nina Fasciaux

Nina Fasciaux is the Europe manager and international coordinator for the Solutions Journalism Network. She previously worked in Russia as an editor and journalist and is now based in France. She is the co-author of the book Nomade des mers,…

Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter is author of Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism: A Step-by-Step Guide. Brigitte is a senior German-Danish journalist, editorial director of Arena for Journalism in Europe, and lecturer at the University of Gothenburg with reporting experience at local, national, and European…

Eva Vajda

Eva Vajda has won awards for her investigative reporting. Currently based in London, she works for Amnesty International as a researcher. She worked as an investigative reporter in Hungary for almost two decades, covering corruption and misuse of power. She…

Jaroslav Valuch

Jaroslav Valuch is a news literacy and fact-checking project manager at Transitions, a Prague-based media development organization, where he runs the organization’s media literacy and disinformation initiatives, including Factczech.cz, which provides support to Czech journalists and students in the field of…

Attila Bátorfy

Attila Bátorfy is an award-winning data and visual journalist currently working as a master’s instructor at the Media and Communications Department of Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. He was head of data at the investigative center Átlátszó for six years and…

Zoltán Sipos

Zoltán Sipos is an investigative journalist and the editor-in-chief of Átlátszó Erdély, an investigative journalism project covering the 1.2 million-strong Hungarian community living in Romania. Átlátszó Erdély uses investigative journalism tools and long-form narrative to cover complex local stories that…

Jowita Radzińska

Jowita Radzińska is a sociologist and ethicist, who has a Ph.D. in humanities. She is also an experienced qualitative researcher, as well as a trainer, coach, design thinking, and CSI: Lab facilitator. She coordinates the research study within the SCIENCE+…

Jon Roozenbeek

Jon Roozenbeek, the British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab.…

Jeremy Druker

Jeremy Druker is the executive director of Transitions and editor in chief of Transitions magazine, which has made solutions journalism a central part of its editorial strategy. He has led dozens of solutions journalism workshops online and throughout Central and…

Meenal Thakur

Meenal Thakur is the coordinator of Transitions’ solutions journalism program. She is an accredited solutions journalism trainer and former journalist and has experience in developing and managing journalism programs across Europe. She has managed projects related to development reporting, cross-border…

Jakub Zelenka

Jakub Zelenka, a Czech journalist who decided to go his own way after years of experience in leading Czech newsrooms, will share his practical experience. A year ago, he started his own project Mimo agendu (Off the Agenda) and proved…