Western Balkans

Our Western Balkans network

Check out all the participating journalists listed here. This is what brings them together.

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Fatjona Mejdini

Director of SEE Observatory, Global Initiative

Albania

Ulrike Butmaloiu

IDEM - Institute for Democracy, Media and Cultural Exchange

Berlin, Germany

Stephan Ozsváth

Freelance Journalist, ARD Hörfunkstudio Südosteuropa

Wien, Austria

Christoph Kersting

Bremen, Germany

Florian Bachmeier

Photographer

La Lastra de Castro, Spain

Jan Zappner

Photographer, c/o Freie Redaktion

Berlin, Germany

Marc-Steffen Unger

Photojournalist

Berlin, Germany

Caroline Chrissi Wilkens

euro|topics correspondent Greece and Cyprus, Freelance journalist

Chania-Kreta, Greece

Gemma Pörzgen

Freelance Journalist, Ost-West.Europäische Perspektiven

Berlin , Germany

Cornelia Kästner

LWF

Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland

Christian Weiß

Press Officer, Würzburg City

Würzburg, Germany

Arndt Lorenz

TV Journalist, Westdeutscher Rundfunk /WDR

Aachen, Germany

Merlin Nadj-Torma

Freelance Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Annette Streicher

Freelance Journalist, ZDF

Berlin, Germany

Paweł Starzec

Freelance Photographer

Warsaw, Poland

Elizaveta Kucherova

Program & Finance Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

Hannes Jung

Freelance Photographer

Berlin, Germany

Uwe Jesiorkowski

Dortmund, Germany

Stefan Tenner

Editor, Aktionsbündnis Brandenburg

Neumünster, Germany

Gemma Teres Arilla

Deputy Head Foreign Desk, taz

Berlin, Germany

Krsto Lazarevic

Journalist, Ballaballa-Balkan

Berlin, Germany

Stefan Elsing

Freelance Journalist

Kleinmachnow, Germany

Tom Moddenborg

Assistant Desk Officer, Auswärtiges Amt

Berlin, Germany

Jerko Bakotin

Staff Journalist, Novosti

Zagreb, Croatia

Johannes Rüger

Press Officer, OSCE

Eltville am Rhein, Germany

Philipp Richter

Journalist, Schwäbische Zeitung

Weißenau, Germany

Lucia Vasella

Freelance journalist

Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland

Paul Katzenberger

Journalist, RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland

Moscow, Russian Federation

Nils Bröer

Photographer and Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Dirk Auer

Freelance Journalist

Berlin, Germany

Mirjam Baumert

Köln, Germany

Carsten Fiedler

Social Media Manager, n-ost

Berlin, Germany

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