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Following the Heroin Trail: Update 1 – AFGHANISTAN

The winners of this year’s Pitch Prize are following a package of heroin from the Afghan poppy fields all the way to the needle in Europe.Their journey will take them through  Iran, Turkey and across Eastern-European borders. Update 1 from Helmand, Afghanistan:  Roughly… Continue Reading →

October 13, 2015

The Hostwriter Prize 2015: The Finalists

While the world becomes ever more interconnected, the financial means of reporting continue to shrink. If journalists want to follow suit and continue to try and grasp the bigger picture of things, they need to unlock new research strategies that go beyond… Continue Reading →

October 7, 2015

The Hostwriter Pitch Prize Winners

We are proud to present the the winners of Hostwriter’s very first Pitch Prize. Congratulations to Hanne Couderé and Jim Huylebroek who follow a package of Heroin from the poppy fields in Afghanistan to the consumer in Europe in collaboration with Asli Elitsoy, Maria Cheresheva, and Stevan… Continue Reading →

October 5, 2015

The Hostwriter Prize: CONGRATULATIONS to all winners!

We are very happy to announce the winners of the Hostwriter Prize! Thanks to the Otto Sprenger foundation, we can award grants to each one of our finalists: €5.000 for the first place, €2.000 for the second and €1.000 each… Continue Reading →

December 20, 2014

The Hostwriter Prize, 1st Place: The Climate News Mosaic

Silvia Giannelli (Italy), Ido Liven (Israel), Diego Arguedas Ortiz (Costa Rica), Imelda Abano (The Philippines), Lou Del Bello  (Italy /UK), Justin Gerdes (USA), Anja Krieger (Germany), Stephen Leahy (Candada), Komila Nabiyeva  (Germany), Fabiola Ortiz (Brazil), Mantoe Phakathi (Swaziland), Elena Roda… Continue Reading →

December 20, 2014

The Hostwriter Prize, 2nd Place: “Fleeing Kobane: Only the things they could carry“

By Abed al-Qaisi (Palestinian territory), Matthew Vickery (Scotland) & Sheren Khalel (Palestinian territory/USA)  “What do people take with them when they onlyhave a matter of seconds or minutes to escape? What stories, histories, emotions and thoughts does that item bring,… Continue Reading →

December 20, 2014

The Hostwriter Prize – we’re delighted to present the winners!

Dear Hostwriters, colleagues & friends, thanks to the Otto Sprenger foundation, we can award grants to each one of our finalists: €5.000 for the first place, €2.000 for the second and €1.000 each for the third to fifth place. Today,… Continue Reading →

December 18, 2014

The Hostwriter Prize, 3rd Place: “Some work some play. India’s working children unionists”

Gayatri Parameswaran (India) & Felix Gaedtke (Germany) “We first met the boys in 2012 when they were 11 years old. When we met them in the summer of 2014, it was disconcerting to find out that they had both dropped… Continue Reading →

December 18, 2014

The Hostwriter Prize, 4th Place: “Violence in the Central African Republic”

Peter Dörrie (Germany), Simon Allison (South Africa) & Jean-Louis Gondamoyen (Central African Republic) “Collaboration doesn’t enhance our reporting. It alone makes it possible. Our collaboration is designed to go beyond pure utilitarianism and cost-sharing. As a team of three collaborators… Continue Reading →

December 18, 2014

The Hostwriter Prize, 5th Place: “25 Years Fall of the Wall”

Dagmar Gester (Germany) & Diana Ivanova (Bulgaria) “Since there weren’t any Bulgarian colleagues on hostwriter at the time, I had to track Diana Ivanova through other channels. I’m writing this application from Wroclaw, where I successfully contacted Polish colleagus via… Continue Reading →

December 18, 2014
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