Website: http://www.en.ejo.ch
Rachel Stern is the EJO Fellow at Free University Berlin. She's been based in Berlin since 2012, first as a Arthur F. Burns Fellow at Spiegel Online and most recently through a Fulbright Scholarship for journalists. Her reporting on German politics, culture, business has appeared in NPR Berlin, Deutsche Welle, Slate, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Huffington Post, among other publications. Originally from San Francisco, she holds as Master's Degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
June 26, 2018 •
Digital News, Recent, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Rachel Stern
It’s often difficult for media organisations to cover international events. That’s why journalist Justin Varilek launched HackPack, a platform to connect freelancers worldwide to the news bureaus that need them – making life easier...
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February 23, 2018 •
Business Models, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
A podcast is a concept that’s new to most people in Slovakia. That’s why Bratislava-based journalist Dávid Tvrdoň received skeptical comments when he suggested producing one himself last November. Yet with the help of his colleagues...
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July 31, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Rachel Stern
Located in an airy office in Berlin’s Mitte neighbourhood, newscase is a fast-growing, profitable Berlin journalism start-up – without any journalists. Newscase is an aggregator with a difference. It distributes the content of 100...
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June 5, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Rachel Stern
One year ago Blendle, a Dutch start-up, was founded with a goal to change how news is read and consumed. No small feat. Yet their micropayment model – readers pay per article, and can choose from a variety of outlets on one platform...
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April 14, 2015 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
With massive staff and content cuts at newspapers worldwide, it would be easy to assume that investigative journalism is on the decline. It is one of the most time-consuming and expensive ways of reporting. Yet a number of free online...
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February 26, 2015 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers, dubbed ‘Facebook for Science’, has launched a new social reader – the RG Format – which it claims will help academics manage their work and...
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February 18, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
The old adage: “If it bleeds, it leads” is still embraced by many large news outlets, with stories of war, disease and scandals dominating headlines. Yet the public still has a thirst for positive news, according to Charlie Beckett, a...
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January 27, 2015 •
Digital News •
by Rachel Stern
Berlin has become a mecca for rebellious technophiles, in a country already sensitive about data security and protection. Some of Edward Snowden’s biggest allies — Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras, Internet activist Jacob...
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January 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Rachel Stern
An estimated 11 million European Union citizens live in a different EU country from which they were born. Generation E, the first cross-border data journalism project on European youth migration, aims to tell, and catalogue some of their...
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