Eurozine

Ivana Pejić, editor-in-chief of Kulturpunkt, explains how Kurziv and Kulturpunkt are working together to deal with funding gaps and to reconnect with their audiences outside the confines of social media.

Krytyka Polityczna is a Warsaw based online magazine, publishing house and cultural institution. In this interview with editor-in-chief Agnieszka Wiśniewska we discuss Krytyka’s vision of connecting journalists, activists, academics, artists and the wider public in Poland, as well as surviving as an independent media platform in an environment of increasingly strained and competitive funding.

Gerador is a non-profit cultural organization based in Lisbon. Clara Amante, head of Gerador’s Academy, explores questions of cultural funding and how EU projects are helping Gerador develop their methods of cultural and journalistic engagement.

Voxeurop is an independent online media outlet based in France. Founded by a team of journalists from across Europe, Voxeurop is pan-European at its core. Paul Salvanès, CEO of Voxeurop, explains how the platform began and how it is sustained by a dedicated readership and its passion for Europe.

Our choice of Eurozine articles and talk show episodes from 2024 reflects, both analytically and personally, on shifting cultural landscapes: from escalations of violence, invasive technologies and media sustainability to gut feelings and life-changing moments. 

War, women’s rights, deportations and democracy: what’s at risk as Trump returns? Eurozine’s topical reads on what to expect of the power shift in the US.

How can independent media in Europe survive in an increasingly difficult public sphere? The Eurozine network gathered in Warsaw from 11–13 October to discuss how media consumption shifts and political changes are affecting cultural journalists and audiences today.

How can a captured state be democratized? Who invented postmodern corruption? What does political humour have to do with political analysis? A Polish, a Romanian, a Slovenian and a Hungarian editor walk into a cooperative bar in Kraków to talk professional responsibility and personal survival tactics.

Independent sources of information have been almost entirely destroyed in Russia. It is critical to reveal to Russian citizens the full truth about the suffering of the Ukrainian nation. An appeal to Russian speakers worldwide from prominent members of the Russian literary intelligentsia.

A diary from the front, a Syrian scenario for Putin, and opportunities to help: here’s a review of what editors and authors of the Eurozine network have to say about Ukraine.

Putin’s war is being fought in the interests of a political elite, not the Russian nation. But the information bubble is preventing the Russian public from speaking out. That is where those outside Russia come in. An appeal from Russian civil society.

Three opposition journalists from Turkey, Russia and Hungary talk to Eurozine’s editor-in-chief about repressive regimes, personal risk, migration, the role of the media and the future of their profession in the digital age.

The urgency of the climate crisis demands individual ethics as much as a willingness to cooperate with power. But reconnecting humans with the natural world also forces us to revisit the promises of ever-growing efficiency and a culture of exploitation.

One year in and the pandemic has hit women particularly hard: decades’ of advancement in the workplace and academia are under threat; domestic violence has skyrocketed. And yet, in institutional politics, women seem to be growing in numbers and influence. This year’s International Women’s Day ‘challenge’ is one of recovery.

From climate change to political corruption and authoritarianism, leaders of protest movements share a common dilemma: how to achieve impact when existing parties and institutions cannot be trusted?

Just landed in Moscow after recovering from the Novichok poisoning of last August, Putin’s major political opponent Aleksej Navalny was immediately arrested. This selection of Eurozine reads helps understand why the Kremlin fears him and is cracking down on niches of free expression and rising civic activism.