Fwd: EUtopia Athens - call for writers/ photographers, 4-7 April 2013
Ilona Nuksevica
From: Nabeelah Shabbir <n.sh...@cafebabel.com>
Date: 2013/2/20
Subject: EUtopia Athens - call for writers/ photographers, 4-7 April 2013
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REPORT FOR US FROM ATHENS
04 - 07 April 2013
Editor-in-charge: Katharina Kloss; eut...@cafebabel.com
7 cities
and 7 special city editions of feature reports: We're continuing our
series of monthly reporting missions to a different city in our Europe-wide
network, this year with ‘EUtopia
on the ground’ - a special focus on the future of our European continent.
04 - 07 April 2013 Athens/ Greece
WHAT IS IT: In 2013 we launch our monthly editorial series - ‘EUtopia on the ground’ - which aims to raise consciousness on the issue of future and fantasy in Europe in times of a major identity crisis.
TO DO WHAT: Valorising local, young projects, ideas, stories, initiatives and angles that have emerged from preoccupations challenging our future and fantasy. Be ‘on the ground’ and make us feel you’ve been hanging out and working in Athens. Try to use more 'gonzo' journalism than 'institutional' journalism - be creative, be personal, whilst staying journalistic-minded with the facts and statistics, the sources and interviewees. Spend time with locals, describe what you saw/ felt/ learned from them. Be critical, ‘EU’ isn’t an ideology for cafebabel.com.
WANTED: We need three journalists (written or video) and one photographer to join this mission - writing on aforesaid offbeat, future and utopia-related topics with the support of our local host team. Make sure you don’t come unprepared, so we can make some noise whilst we are in town.
It’s your article proposals that will get you noticed for this mission: so be creative, do some research before applying, flog your idea donkeys to me.
LOGISTICS: Book your own flights/ trains to Athens: a sum of up to 280 euros is reimbursed by cafebabel.com (provided receipts are kept) upon return from the trip and receipt of the article. Other travel and food expenses are reimbursed (for more information see with our project manager Emeline). The team is hosted by warm locals or a hostel.
EDITORIAL: The editor in charge at Paris HQ, who will be leading the mission in Athens (read their cityblog, athens.cafebabel.com), will supervise you in defining the angle of your article and making preparations for interviews at least a couple of weeks before the trip is due to commence.
BUT: it’s up to you to do your own research before leaving for the project, to find interesting and book interviewees and ideas 'on the ground'. The written piece is due in strictly one week later, when the relevant linguistic editor from the central Paris office will edit your piece, which will be translated by our volunteer networks, and then published in six languages within the following month.
- With your CV, three-line EUTOPIA article proposals, link with the news and crisis of
ideas and identity
in Europe, ideas of interviewees...be original! We look forward to eating
them up!
[Contact: Katharina Kloss/ eut...@cafebabel.com]
Katharina Kloss
German editor-in-chief
and editorial coordination
cafebabel.com: das Europamagazin
226 rue St Denis, 75002 Paris, France
T: +33 (0)1 42 33 45 79
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