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Arena Housing Project Launches ‘Online Collaborative Environment’

Posted on June 5, 2020January 26, 2023 by BIRD

The digital platform, which facilitates and promotes cross-border journalism and research focusing on the housing crisis across Europe, has launched its new online infrastructure, which will help journalists “work&talk in confidence, create private folders, wiki pages and group conversations”, Arena Housing Project announced via its Twitter account on June 3.

The platform now offers various tools for its registered members, such as Arena Housing Cloud and Office, Arena Housing Wiki and Arena Housing Chat. It already hosts vast public resources, including the Arena Housing Knowledge Base, a comprehensive repository of different kinds of informative resources regarding housing (reports, data sets, visualisations as well as public policy and court cases;) and the Arena Housing List, launched in September 2019, which provides members with a place to share data sources, reports, media articles, contacts and other resources concerning housing.

The Arena Housing Project was created following the 2019 Dataharvest conference, as a consequence of a transnational nature of the housing crisis in Europe. Its goal is to “empower journalists and other researchers working on housing across Europe and assist them in doing cross-border collaborations, so that their work gets more visibility and achieves a greater impact”.

“The Housing Project also has the ambition to bridge the knowledge and communication gap across European borders and between the local, national and EU levels,” its website says.

So far, Arena has developed a network of journalists and other professionals working on housing issues in towns and cities across Europe.

How Editors and Journalists Can Use Hostwriter Tool to Collaborate

Posted on May 21, 2020January 26, 2023 by BIRD

Meanwhile, newsrooms are far less able to send reporters abroad for research and coverage, even at a time when the importance of cross-border reporting is at an all-time high.

With this dynamic in mind, Hostwriter has launched a new tool, COVID-19 Collaboration Wire. With support from nextMedia.Hamburg and in partnership with the European Journalism Centre, this tool aims to help editors easily commission journalists across borders. Read on to see how both journalists and editors can take advantage of this new feature.

How editors can use COVID-19 collaboration wire

To use COVID-19 Collaboration Wire, editors and news publishers do not need to join Hostwriter. (Although, of course, they are very welcome to do so!)

To find journalists to commission, editors can access editors.hostwriter.org and fill out the form on that page. They will need to indicate what kind of reporting or research they are looking for, in what country (if applicable) and how much they will pay for the commissioned work.

After they submit, they will get confirmation that their request was received. Within the next few days, they will receive contact from Hostwriter containing the top pitches for their request and the contact information for the vetted journalists. After Hostwriter’s “match-making” role is complete, the editors and journalists can take it from there.

How journalists can find commissions from COVID-19 collaboration wire

To find calls for pitches submitted through the COVID-19 Collaboration Wire, Hostwriter members need only sign into their Hostwriter.org account and go to our HostWIRE chatroom. There, calls for pitches will be posted with all necessary information about how to apply. After logging in to Hostwriter, click on “Collaboration”, then click on the board “Calls for Pitches”. Posts from the COVID-19 Collaboration Wire will contain #CovidWire in the subject line.

Not a Hostwriter member? It’s easy and free to join our network of 5,000+ journalists in 154 countries and gain access to HostWIRE, our journalism chatroom. Every day, they post new grants and fellowships, job opportunities, calls for pitches and more. In addition, you can use the board to get advice and find co-authors to work with. To register, click here: bitly.com/JoinHostwriter

Both Editors and Journalists can reach out to Hostwriter with any questions about how to use the COVID-19 Collaboration Wire. Simply write to wire@hostwriter.org.

This article was initially published at www.hostwriter.org.

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