11 cities, 11 special city editions of feature reports, 11 local debates: We’re kicking off our yearly series of monthly reporting missions to a different city in our Europe-wide network
BERLIN, GERMANY: 20 to 23 MAY 2010
Step
1: what’s it about
WHAT IS IT: This year, we will continue our monthly editorial series, ‘EU Crisis on the ground’ (funded by the European commission).
TO DO WHAT: Valorising local, positive citizen initiatives that have emerged out of the crisis. Comparing this on a pan-European playing field. Finding young, positive angles on the crisis.
Step 2: recruiting you
WANTED: We need three journalists, one video maker and one photographer to join this mission - writing on aforesaid offbeat, crisis-related topics with the support of our local host team in Germany, and attending a local debate held by the team in Berlin.
It’s your proposals that will get you noticed for this mission: so be creative, do some research, flog your idea donkeys to me. Prepare yourself: read the Berlin local team blog
Step 3: you on EU crisis on the ground
LOGISTICS: Book your own flights/ trains to Berlin: up to 250 euro is reimbursed by cafebabel.com upon return from the trip, along with other travel, food expenses up to 25 euro every day (figures TBC). The team is hosted by the locals in Berlin.
EDITORIAL: the editor in Paris and the team in Berlin will help define your article, find you fixers, interviewees for your time in the city. The written piece is due in strictly one week later, when the relevant linguistic editor in Paris will edit your piece, which will be translated by our volunteer networks, and then published the following month.
Step 4: email Roberto at redazione@cafebabel.com with your CVs, three-line article proposals, link with the news and crisis, ideas of interviewees
L'Observatoire s'associe au Théâtre du Garde-Chasse pour vous inviter à venir nombreux à notre ciné-club voir ou revoir Good Bye Lenin! de Wolfgang Becker à 19h, le 20 octobre prochain. Le film sera suivi d'une table ronde sur le 20e anniversaire de la chute du mur de Berlin. Parmi les invités, notons Antonin Liehm, journaliste, ancien éditeur de la Gazette littéraire, l’un des principaux foyers du « Printemps de Prague », et fondateur de la Lettre internationale, la revue de référence des intellectuels dissidents d'Europe centrale et orientale, Patrick Le Mahec, ancien responsable des relations avec l'Europe de l'Est au PCF 1970-1980, Katharina Kloss, rédactrice en chef de la redaction allemande de www.cafebabel.com, le magazine en ligne de référence de la jeune génération européenne.