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Following the Heroin Trail: Update 3 – IRAN

Update from Sistan-Baluchistan, the Iranian province bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan Iran spends $ 2 billion a year to stem the flow of drugs inside the country. This year alone, more than 500 people were hanged for drug-related crimes. Nevertheless, tons of… Continue Reading →

Following the Heroin Trail: Update 2 – 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 2 from Nimroz, Afghanistan: “In Nimroz… Continue Reading →

October 23, 2015

InPerspective: “The stringers are our journalists”

We are happy to announce a new exciting partner of Hostwriter. When we were introduced to each other it felt like match made in heaven. Hostwriter provides an infrastructure for journalists while InPerspective offers an outlet for publishing and translating international… Continue Reading →

October 23, 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

Apply for the Hostwriter Prize 2015! — new deadline August 31st

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July 12, 2015

Save the Date: Hostwriter at re:publica 15 on May 5th, Berlin

We are part of it: re:publica 15, Europe’s leading conference on Internet and Society, will take place in Berlin. On Tuesday, 5th of May at 5.15 pm, you will find Hostwriter and our international partners on a panel: #rp15: Finding… Continue Reading →

April 27, 2015

Get to Know Our 1000th Member!

We present our 1000th member, Bernd Debusmann. Bernd’s BIO He is half-Mexican, half-German and grew up in Mexico City and Washington, DC. WORK: Bernie works at the Khaleej Times in Dubai, one of the most widely circulated English-language newspapers in the GCC. Previously… Continue Reading →

March 11, 2015

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: Here come….the finalists!

In the last couple of days, we’ve had one of the toughest jobs in the world. The quality of the applications for the Hostwriter Prize left us ecstatic, though made the task of narrowing it down to potential winners a… Continue Reading →

December 6, 2014

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