Francesca De Benedetti is senior editor at the Italian daily Domani, where she covers European politics. In 2024 she has been a fellow at IWM Vienna, where she won the Milena Jesen

Vera Gheno is a sociolinguist, who has collaborated with the Accademia della Crusca for 20 years. After 18 years as a contractor in various universities, since the end of 2021 she

Marijana Grbeša is a Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science where she teaches courses in media, research methods, and strategic communication in poli

Sara Manisera is an independent reporter and author working in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, and Italy. Sara’s research mainly focuses on e

Carien J. Touwen is a senior lecturer and coordinator of international relations and education at the School of Journalism in Utrecht (part of the HU University of Applied Sciences

Nadia Vissers is the director of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) which groups more than 80 journalism schools from all over Europe with the main aim to cooperat

Matthew Caruana Galizia is the son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist who investigated high-level corruption and was assassinated in a car bombing in 2017. Since then,