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Foreign Reporting: E-learning modules on challenges and solutions available 

By Dominik Speck (Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism) Becoming a foreign correspondent still appeals to many beginners in the field. Yet, reporting foreign affairs has changed dramatically in recent years. While both the contents and structures of foreign reporting… Continue Reading →

Display.Voices – Open Invitation for Media Organizations in Europe

Join us on the 22-23rd of September in Budapest, Hungary, at the Display.Voices conference to kick-start a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values – built by independent, not-for-profit media organizations. The two-day program features reflections on the current media… Continue Reading →

The World Talks: ZEIT ONLINE launches first global dialogue format in partnership with Unbias The News, Others 

ZEIT ONLINE is launching a global dialogue experiment: on June 25, “The World Talks” will bring people from all over the world together for cross-border one-on-one conversations to discuss topics such as climate change or equality. An algorithm will form… Continue Reading →

Job Vacancy: Finance Assistant

We’re looking for a finance assistant to join our team! The starting date for this position is 01.05.2023. The role is based in Berlin, and is to be filled as soon as possible. The initial contract will be one day… Continue Reading →

Who’s afraid of local journalism?

By Tina Lee That was the big question of the day at the University of Porto’s Faculdad de Letras, where Hostwriter co-hosted a design sprint in January with up-and-coming journalists from the Porto region as part of the Circle Project…. Continue Reading →

Are these coastal cities prepared for sea-level rise? Introducing: The Sinking Cities Project

BERLIN, Oct. 26, 2022 – Unbias the News, a global, cross-border newsroom, has launched a significant cross-border climate journalism project titled The Sinking Cities. Through this investigation, we have aimed to answer a pressing question: how are coastal cities worldwide… Continue Reading →

The future of journalism – Trust will not rebuild itself

Discussing shrinking civic space, new media and democracy “What is our job – just to be a witness to the end of the world? Or to rethink the way in which we live our lives, and probably somewhere, build a… Continue Reading →

Underrepresentation is misrepresentation: Our takeaways from IJF22

By Zahra Salah Uddin Earlier this month, the Hostwriter/Unbias the News team took a much-awaited trip to Perugia, Italy for this year’s International Journalism Festival. What’s normally an annual occurrence took place this year after a break of two years… Continue Reading →

How it started | How it’s going ✨

Holy cow, it’s been a ride. From founding Hostwriter as a collaboration network in 2013 to launching our own feminist cross-border newsroom Unbias the News this year. I couldn’t be more proud of what we have achieved as a team! And it’s exactly at this moment that I’m excited to share some personal news with you.

Unbias the News: Selection of Pitches

By Ankita Anand It’s pouring pitches! A lot of people out there seem to share our mission because our widely circulated calls for pitches got us around 800 entries! With infinite resources, we would have loved nothing more than to… Continue Reading →

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