Name: Dataharvest cafes: Come and chat with us about Security, Fundraising & Finance, and the EU & FOI
Start: 2025-05-24T12:30:00+0200
End: 2025-05-24T13:45:00+0200

Saturday May 24, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm CEST

Mediaforum

Use your lunch break to come and chat with our experts in one of the Dataharvest "cafes"!

Here you can ask experts' advice on security, fundraising or drafting a budget, obtaining documents from the EU (or investigating the EU in general), or help in coding. You’ll find these “cafes” in the main lobby area (Mediaforum, where coffee breaks and lunches take place on the ground floor). To locate the cafes, just look for for roll-ups with the corresponding name!

Security cafe

Come to the security cafe to assess your digital hygiene habits! Our privacy enthusiasts will assess them, and advise you on how you can improve your privacy/security. Also, if you have a specific question about a security issue you've encountered during your investigation or need a risk assessment, come by too!

Experts: Filip Milošević (SHARE Foundation, Serbia), Andrijana Ristić (SHARE Foundation, Serbia), Henrik Chulu (Technology Advisor, Global Focus), Deborah Meibergen (Arena for Journalism in Europe)

Finance & Fundraising cafe

Do you want to learn how to translate your ideas into budgets, explore different financial scenarios, draft budgets for grant applications, improve your financial reporting, or learn where to start fundraising for your new project? Join the finance and fundraising cafe to ask anything you’ve always wanted to know about journalism finance—but never dared to ask.

Please note: in order for us to be better prepared to answer your questions, please submit them beforehand via this form: https://tables.journalismarena.eu/form/tQI7RY8vSYqhBlmz0xwe_7qmC531fwqJzjEeb4OAo6E

Experts: Brigitte Alfter (Arena for Journalism in Europe), Cora Maria Moyano (Arena for Journalism in Europe)

EU & FOI cafe

Do you need help drafting an FOI request, writing a complaint about your FOI request being rejected, or understanding EU legislation? Are you looking for specific EU databases, experts, and sources? Come to the "Eu Cafe" for advice!

Experts: Alexander Fanta (Follow The Money), Jean Comte (MLex), Pascal Hansens (Investigate Europe)

Speakers

Deborah Meibergen

IT Coordinator and security awareness trainer Collaborative Desk, Arena for Journalism in Europe

I'm a seasoned project and operations manager, IT coordinator and security awareness trainer. Next to managing operations or projects, I also have experience with writing and implementing information security policies and (technical) documentation.Self-taught, I’ve worked in the... Read More →

Brigitte Alfter

Director, Arena for Journalism in Europe

Brigitte Alfter is a senior German-Danish journalist and director for Arena for Journalism in Europe. Having practiced journalism for more than a decade on local, national and European level, she realised the need for collaborative journalism and for structures to support not least... Read More →

Pascal Hansens

Cora Maria Moyano

Finance Manager, Arena for Journalism in Europe

Happy to share and learn about finance, business models, fundraising, processes, systems, and transparency in nonprofits. It doesn't need to be boring or terribly serious ;)

Alexander Fanta

Follow the Money

Alexander Fanta is an investigative reporter with Follow the Money. He writes about tech companies and their lobbying in the European Union. Alexander was part of an international team of journalists who investigated the corruption allegations against Chinese tech giant Huawei.Alexander... Read More →

Jean Comte

Reporter, MLex

I am a Brussels-based journalist, currently covering financial regulation for the financial newswire MLex.I spent several years before that writing about transparency, ethics and lobbying in the EU institutions. I published a book on lobbying in 2023, that was reedited this year.I... Read More →