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Brigitte Alfter
Brigitte Alfter is a German Danish journalist and author. Having practiced journalism on local, national and European level - including four years as an EU correspondent in Brussels - she realized the need for cross-border collaborative journalism structures. From 2008 she developed a European support - and infrastructure for cross-border journalism including work grants, the annual European Investigative Journalism Conference & Dataharvest and other network structures, initially at Belgian non-profit Journalismfund.eu and since 2019 at Dutch Foundation Arena for Journalism in Europe. She has practiced cross-border journalism - with the ICIJ and others - and taught journalism at all levels. She combines journalism practice, entrepreneurial activities and research, has authored the handbook on cross-border collaborative journalism first published in 2015 in Danish language and contributed to several anthologies on journalism practice.