Edgeryders is looking for freelance journalists from the Czech Republic, Poland, and Serbia to conduct series of interviews on topics such as safety and health as a part of our POPREBEL research project.
POPREBEL - Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe has the aim to describe the phenomenon of populism, create a typology of its various manifestations, reconstruct trajectories of its growth and decline, investigate its causes, interpret its meanings, diagnose its consequences, and propose policy solutions.
We are looking for curious, determined, and focused journalists to join our team. As a reporter, you will conduct research, interview sources, and write engaging stories to inform, captivate, and grow our audience. Our ideal candidate is a proactive go-getter, clear communicator, and dedicated to producing unbiased stories.
Journalist Duties and Responsibilities
Conduct series of interviews with people from non-urban/rural parts of your homeland researching their view on safety, security and health
Build a network of sources for interviews and develop relationships within the community
Take photographs, video, or audio recordings for documentation
Post the interviews on edgeryders.eu and support interviewees to register with an account
Journalist Requirements and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communication, English, or related field
Native speaker of Czech or Polish or Serbian and good level of English
Able to maintain an ethical, honest, and objective standard in reporting
Adaptable and able to build rapport with a diverse array of people
Disciplined with strong time management skills; able to work to deadlines
Superb research and writing skills
Creative and inquiring mind
Strong interpersonal communication skills
Knowledge of communications media and telecommunications technology, familiar with online communication
Similar Job Titles
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Correspondent
Staff Writer
Terms
The engagement period and remuneration will be agreed on based on mutually convened deliverables at the contract negotiation phase following this call. The reason for this is that we are aware of different skill levels, hourly rate and time constraints that candidates might have, and wish to be able to accommodate that.
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. I have been a TV journalist-reporter since 2012. I work for Public service of Vojvodina (www.rtv.rs), where I report mostly on politics, but also on everything that is in the public interest. I am the author of several documentaries, and I also worked on the Internet service of RTV. I have a few international certificates, including the certificate on reporting in war by Anadolu news agency.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Politics
Where are you based? Belgrade, Pirot and the Balkan Mountains, Serbia
Which languages do you speak? Serbian and English. Russian to a lesser extent.
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. Chemical engineer by profession, translator by occupation (have been in the trade for twenty years now, I’d say I have excellent command of English) and die-hard environmental activist by vocation. Fighting against the development of run-of-river hydropower plants in vulnerable and sensitive mountainous biotopes in Serbia. Essayist and publicist in national dailies and weeklies, for years. Intermittently.
Spending much of my time in Serbian rural communities building awareness on environmental issues, polution, detrimental run-of-river small hydropower plants, environmentally harmful big-scale mining, health and safety issues. I worked hard to earn the trust of the local population, but it paid out in the end.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Health and social care
Your online presence Some in Serbian, some in English. Don’t really believe in personal advertising.
Danas, independent national daily (in Serbian):
Web page of the informal activist group “Let’s defend the Stara Planina Rivers” (in English):
Which languages do you speak? Polish (native), English (proficient), Russian (advanced), Azerbaijani (upper-intermediate), Czech (upper-intermediate), French (intermediate)
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. Anna Zamejc is a Polish freelance journalist with over 10 years of experience in the field. She was a 2013 Fulbright and International Peace Scholarship recipient, which allowed her to complete a Master’s degree in Peace and Justice Studies at the University of San Diego, California, where she was trained as a court mediator. Anna has worked as a correspondent with the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Free Europe and has contributed to various other media outlets. She also had a stint in one of the Middle Eastern press agencies, reporti from a hot conflict zone. Since 2014, she has been affiliated with a Czech NGO People in Need, currently holding a position of International Advocacy Officer. In 2017, she won a Tom Lantos fellowship at U.S. Congress and spent several months at the U.S. Helsinki Commission, working on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, human rights and security in the OSCE area.
Although she specializes in the politics of South Caucasus, she’s eager to do more reporting from her native country, Poland.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Politics
Your online presence My recent publications (2020)
Which languages do you speak? Serbian (native), English (advanced), Hungarian (basic + ongoing language course)
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. I am a librarian, currently working as the cultural program manager in Public Library of Becej. By vocation, I am a philosophy professor, but I never worked as one However, I did manage to use and promote the knowledge and skills I’ve obtained at the university to my everyday work with the library users, which is the reason why I also work as a librarian educator. Besides that, I was involved in politics and civic activism for many years, writing and coordinating projects, promoting policies on human rights and community issues. The last couple of years, I’m active in subjects regarding children’s safety (violence and negligence prevention and preservation of safety), by organizing and mentoring talks and round tables on the subject, between different institutions. The last project I was coordinating, which consisted of different child safety topics, was awarded the 1st prize from the municipal board in the year of 2019.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Other
Your online presence This is Fb page of the Library I work in:
Which languages do you speak? English, Serbian-Montenegrin
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. A journalist with a significant professional experience in the media and non-profit sector in Montenegro, involved in numerous research and communication activities in the area of media freedom and human rights. I am currently working in Montenegro Media Institute as a researcher for EU funded project for promotion media freedom and counter disinformation and hateful propaganda in Western Balkan and Turkey.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Politics
Which languages do you speak? Serbian (Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian), English and French.
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. After studies in Directing and Writing for Screen and Theatre at UNITEC Auckland and graduating with a degree in Theatre Directing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, I obtained a Master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism at Bournemouth University (UK).
As Head of Production in VICE Serbia since its launch in 2014, I participated in establishing the production and later focused solely to the creative process of the production as Supervising Producer, overseeing all of the production’s films and strengthening the required VICE film style and format. Meanwhile I produce-directed and hosted my own documentaries broadcast on various VICE platforms.
I am a freelance director, producer, researcher and fixer.
Which of the following topics are closest to you?
Your online presence All the links in the About section of my web portfolio:
Which languages do you speak? Polish, English, French, Japanese
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. I am a Polish freelance journalist. I am fluent in English and my native Polish. I have a PhD in political sciences (I specialize in relations between the PRC and Japan). I have experience of work as a journalist, political analyst, NGO worker, manager of a Japanese restaurant, in administrative and marketing jobs and in coordination of translations, social media.
As a journalist I specialize in interviews and especially in the topics which are in between politics, ecology and social issues.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Politics
Which languages do you speak? Czech (native) and Englisch (fluent)
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. I have been a journalist and editor for different Czech magazines and newpapers for last 20 years. I have worked a lot for content marketing magazines and life style magazines but for newspapers as well. I am a freelancer at the moment.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Other
Which languages do you speak? Native Czech, communication level of English (somewhere around C1)
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. I’ve got nearly six years of experiences in the field. I worked as a journalist in the newspapers, in the national TV (continuous news broadcast CT24). Last two and half year I led two different media projects (online and also print) for students and younger generation in one of the biggest Czech publishing house Economia. As editor-in-chief, I was in charge of creating topics, news and other textual content and podcasts. Our main topic was social phenomena in the life of our target group, as well as topics such as technology or research and science. I currently work as a freelance journalist, focusing on social issues, work, education and gender problematics. In addition, I work as a reportage and portrait photographer.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Gender, sexuality, reproductive rights
Where are you based? I live in Cisna, small town in Bieszczady Mountains, southern Poland. The region is Podkarpacie - it is often called “Polska C” because of lack of infrastructure and possibilities. It is one of the poorest region in Poland
Which languages do you speak? polish, english, russian. Basic georgian and czech, if needed.
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. By profession I am psychologist and currently I work part-time in organization which help migrants in Poland ( Fundacja Ocalenie). I am also photographer and journalist.
3 years ago I moved to Georgia, where I gained journalistic knowledge and experience, working with southcaucasian media platform - jam-news.net. One of the most important experiences from that time was to conduct on-the-field report from Abkhazia, about young people who decide to study abroad.
A year ago I’ve started cooperating with Minority Rights Group - I have finished their online course “Media, Minorities, Migration”, got small grant for project about minorities in Poland and I participated in two field trips - to Bosnia and Greece - focused on migration.
Right now I am a participant in the solution journalism workshops organized by The Local. I am also finishing my long-term photo project focused on migration “In-between”, curated by PixHouse. The outcome should be published in december.
Currently I came back to my hometown, deep in the mountains in the south of Poland. That was not my plan (I just came from Georgia for 2 weeks in mid-march, and well… COVID-19 happened :)) but I am happy where I am. I see many possibilities and needs here, and as I am local it is often easier to convince people to talk.
As a journalist I do freelance work, publishing mostly in polish media (noizz.pl/onet.pl, Miesięcznik Znak, Wysokie Obcasy, wp.pl)
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Health and social care
Your online presence My website is unfortunately under construction now, should be ready in one-two weeks. In any case, here is the adress: www.aga-zielonka.com
I have fb page: Swoją Drogą - Aga Zielonka
and instagram: @zielonka_photostories
Here are the links to some of my recent articles (in polish):
Which languages do you speak? English, Russian, Polish, German
Tell us about your professional background and your experience. Currently freelance journalist interested in social issues. Creator of the biggest platform on Islam in Polish - IslamistaBlog.pl. Cooperating with several Eastern European media outlets like SME, Tygodnik Powszechny, Onet.pl. In 2015-2019 I was a journalist in the biggest Catholic website in Poland, DEON.pl. Before that I was an editor in Pressje quarterly. In 2017 I visited Damascus and Aleppo. I write on religion, migration and refugees, MENA region politics and social issues in the Middle East, interfaith dialogue and social exclusion.
Which of the following topics are closest to you? Other
Your online presence www.islamistablog.pl Redirecting...
However, I did manage to use and promote the knowledge and skills I’ve obtained at the university to my everyday work with the library users, which is the reason why I also work as a librarian educator. Besides that, I was involved in politics and civic activism for many years, writing and coordinating projects, promoting policies on human rights and community issues. The last couple of years, I’m active in subjects regarding children’s safety (violence and negligence prevention and preservation of safety), by organizing and mentoring talks and round tables on the subject, between different institutions. The last project I was coordinating, which consisted of different child safety topics, was awarded the 1st prize from the municipal board in the year of 2019.