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Alexander Fanta is a Brussels-based journalist at Netzpolitik.org, a
German news site that covers digital civil rights. Alexander writes
about technology and digital policy-making in the European Union. In the past, he was a Google Digital News Fellow at at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and worked for the Swiss newspaper NZZ on a project on automated journalism. From 2011 to 2017, Alexander worked as a staff writer at the Austrian Press Agency (APA), where his beat included the OSCE and UN organizations in Vienna. He can be found on Twitter: @FantaAlexx
September 26, 2018 •
Digital News, Media and Politics, Public Relations, Research •
by Alexander Fanta
Google’s News Initiative is a major force in the world of journalism. But where does Google’s money go? And what is the Internet giant trying to achieve with its sponsorship? Our data analysis sheds light on Google's funding spree and...
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March 28, 2018 •
Comment, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Alexander Fanta
Last week, I received an email from the European Commission denying me annual accreditation for the year 2018. In the terse reply to my request sent more than six weeks earlier, the Commission stated that my employer, the German blog...
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March 14, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Short stories •
by Alexander Fanta
Some say Austria dodged a bullet last year. After an acrimonious year-long election campaign the Alpine nation elected Alexander Van der Bellen, a veteran Green Party politician, as president last December. He had a margin of 7.5 points...
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