Let’s meet in Perugia
The beabee team will be at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia from Wednesday April 6 to Sunday April 10. We would love to use the time to meet lots of founders, advocates and other drivers of community-driven media and learn more about their needs. What are your journalism and revenue challenges? What are the current trends in your market? How could we support you to support your community? With the current situation in Ukraine, we would also like to learn more from newsrooms who are working in places where press freedom of press is under threat.
Who will be there?
Julia Hildebrand, Project lead of beabee, julia.hildebrand@correctiv.org, @mediastico
Will Franklin, Lead developer at beabee and the tech mind behind the software, will.franklin@beabee.io
Tobias Hauswurz, Community and Userjoy lead at beabee, tobias.hauswurz@correctiv.org, @tobiasha
Lucas Batt, beta user of the software at Bristol Cable, lucas@thebristolcable.org, @l_ucasbatt
How can you meet us?
Community Media Clinic
Every day from Thursday to Saturday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. we will run a ‘Community Media Clinic’ at Bar Gelateria Veneta, Piazza Italia 20 (right next to Hotel Brufani, watch out for the beabee logo). Let’s talk about challenges in engaging communities, running membership schemes, and building the right toolstack to make both work. Come along to share your lessons or get advice.
Feel free to book a timeslot with calendly or just drop by and say hello.
Our Panel
We will kickstart the festival on Thursday, April 7, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. with our panel discussion in Sala del Dottorato. Under the title “Let’s rebuild the European local media ecosystem: infrastructure for thriving community media” we will discuss how independent community media can reshape our media ecosystem, why we teamed up to build the software beabee and how independent newsrooms and supporters can come on board.
The panel will be moderated by Brigitte Alfter, director of the Arena of Journalism in Europe. She will be joined by Julia Hildbrand, project lead of beabee at CORRECTIV, Lucas Batt, Membership Coordinator at the Bristol Cable and Shirish Kulkarni of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Find all the information about the panel on IJF’s website here.
Community media lunch
As another opportunity to connect with others who work in community-driven newsrooms in a casual way, we’d like to meet up for a lunch on Friday, April 8, 12:30 p.m at Ristorante del Sole, Via Della Rupe 1.
If you want to be there, just fill out the form below.
Important: If you want to meet up, please tell us via this short form what you’d be interested in talking about. And if you are working with community media, we’d love to hear more about some of the questions you are working on right now.
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You might also find us here …
We are just building out our list of panels that we would like to attend. What shouldn’t we miss?
Thursday, April 7, 2 p.m.: Journalism is a public good. Let the public make it
Thurday, April 7, 5 p.m.: Engaging audiences across divides
Friday, April 8, 10.30 a.m.: The diversity dividend: how news orgs find success with underserved audiences
Friday, April 8, 5 p.m.: How local news can empower civic engagement and the fight against misinformation
Saturday, April 9, 12 a.m.: A sustainable future for newsrooms
