Author: Spyros Tzortzis

He is the co-founder of Qurio. Spyros is a founding member of Sociality, a technology and communications cooperative. He is also a digital marketing and communications trainer for organizations such as ANT1 Medialab and Foundit. Previously he worked for Ogilvy. He was also a member of Speak up!, a digital development project for the community radio station of his hometown Messolonghi and he is still active in the local media scene.

International Journalism Festival 2023 #ijf23

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International Journalism Festival 2023 #ijf23

It’s that time of the year! The highly anticipated International Journalism Festival has returned to the historic city of Perugia, boasting over 400 knowledgeable speakers in various concurrent sessions focused on the latest developments in journalism. From April 19th to 23rd, the (super excited) Qurio team will attend this one-of-a-kind event to learn from industry leaders, engage in meaningful discussions; and hopefully, meet and discuss with you too, dear reader, if you plan to attend!

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Our newsroom & media database is now publicly available

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Our newsroom & media database is now publicly available

This post is part of our series regarding the newsroom & media database we are building here at Qurio. Make sure to read our initial post, which covers the methodology that we follow and the insights we take from our database.

📜 Building a database for the news & media ecosystem (Dec 16, 2022)

Let’s start by taking a look at our original article from a few months ago:

At Qurio, we’re on a mission to serve all these segments, while helping small and medium-sized newsrooms. And that’s where we find the most difficulty; in mapping this landscape that’s under massive organizational, commercial, and technological evolution.

We stand still behind this aspiration.

Today we are putting our shared views of our database available for everyone.

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Engaged Journalism workshop in Lithuania

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Engaged Journalism workshop in Lithuania

Following a very kind invitation to the “Spark to Journalism: Engaged Journalism” workshop earlier in October by Media4Change, I had the chance to travel to Lithuania, meet amazing journalists and researchers from all over Europe, and represent Qurio in a vitalizing 4-day workshop at Antalieptė, in Central Lithuania.

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Local newsrooms are pillars of a local community, they should act more like that

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Local newsrooms are pillars of a local community, they should act more like that

This post was originally published on Medium.

When I started writing this article I felt that each word brought the next one like a chain unraveling inside my Google Docs (please excuse me, otherwise fascinating Medium editor!). To be honest, I shouldn’t be that surprised, since I’ve been thinking a lot about what you are about to read for quite some time before I finally sat down and put them into (digital) paper.

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