We are looking for four European young journalists to participate in our journalistic project EuCrisis on the ground, running from 28 th April to 2th May 2010, in Vienna, Austria. Read the guidelines below!
Editor-in-charge/ Puri Lucena/ redaccion@cafebabel.
com
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 network28 APRIL - 02 MAY 2010: VIENNA, AUSTRIA
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
WANTEDWe 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 Austria, and attending a local debate held by the team in Vienna.
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
Step 3: you on EU crisis on the ground
LOGISTICS: Book your own flights/ trains to Vienna: 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 Vienna.
EDITORIAL: the editor in Paris and the team in Vienna 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 Puri at redaccion@cafebabel.com with your CVs, three-line article proposals, link with the news and crisis, ideas of interviewees
