Publishing thorough journalism in multiple countries at once is a powerful contribution to the public discourse, often resulting in internationally agenda-setting publications. To do that, journalists need infrastructures; for example, to find and reach the right colleagues. Complementary skills, from project management, to data journalism, to intercultural communication, are necessary. The Arena team provides both infrastructure and a wide set of competences – always in service of publishing journalism.
Their flagship in-person annual meetings are the Dataharvest European Investigative Journalism Conference with 500 participants (since 2011) and the Climate Arena Conference with 200 participants (since 2023). Arena also hosts and moderates online networks for journalists on specific topics (climate, food & water, labour, affordable housing, arms trade).
They deliver fellowships, trainings and consulting. Further, they work on advancing journalism as a practice, by purposefully working to develop new methods in the field of collaborative, investigative and data journalism.
