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FluxFM and Dradio Wissen: Hostwriter on the German radio – Nov. 2013

What a great week for Hostwriter: We got covered twice in German radio stations. On Wednesday, FluxFM broadcasted a report – and on Thursday, Dradio Wissen sent an interview with co-founder Tabea Grzeszyk in Beirut. Enjoy!! FluxFM, 6.11.2013: Hostwriter –… Continue Reading →

“Couchsurfing for Reporters” – Oct. 30th, 2013

Projekt für mehr Kooperation: Couchsurfing für Reporter Artikel in der Print-Ausgabe der taz vom 30. Oktober 2013 von Marlene Halser Biete Insiderwissen und Kontakte: Drei Medienmacherinnen wollen mit der Online-Plattform „Hostwriter“ Journalisten weltweit zur Zusammenarbeit bewegen. Entstanden ist die Idee aus… Continue Reading →

Lebanon #2: I Like Mondays!

I had a safe trip to Beirut on Saturday afternoon, enjoyed spending most of Sunday chatting in the kitchen with my new flatmate (a professional belly-dancer and a very cool lady, you´ll meet her soon!) and prepared myself for the… Continue Reading →

Fieldwork in Lebanon #1: Bye-bye, Berlin!

Does Hostwriter work? How far can you go when you collaborate with colleagues? Thanks to an IJP Middle East Fellowship, co-founder Tabea Grzeszyk will spend the next two months in Lebanon. There, she is going to put Hostwriter through a… Continue Reading →

Hostwriter´s Diary #2: the making-of our video

Maybe we should have made it easier for our colleagues Carolina Quesada & Chris Cottrell at the shooting of our hostwriter-clip: “Journalists-centered”, “collaborative network”, “one stop-shop-interface”? The script was just a little tongue-twisting: We are still struggling to define our claim… Continue Reading →

Hostwriter´s diary #1: happy birthday, Hostwriter!

It all started with a bureaucratic act: With the input of €33 each, the journalists Tamara Anthony, Sandra Zistl and Tabea Grzeszyk founded hostwriter as a non-profit company in Hamburg on September 23rd. However, at the time being, Tamara was just… Continue Reading →

“Schluss mit Ellenbogen-Journalismus” – October 18th, 2013

Our first-ever hostwriter-interview was on October 18th 2013: Carolin Neumann from the Vocer Innovation Medialab interviewed us for the blog of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013. Vocer was the first sponsor of our hostwriter-project. Sorry for our English friends – so far,… Continue Reading →

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