Brigitte Alfter

About Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter is a senior German-Danish journalist, director for Arena for Journalism in Europe and as of August 2020 lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG), University of Gothenburg. She is the lead of the Erasmus+ Crossborder Journalism Campus project.

Having practiced journalism on local, national and European level, she realised the need for cross-border collaborative journalism structures during her years as Brussels correspondent for Danish daily newspaper Information.

Since 2008, she has practiced and assisted in-depth journalism in and about Europe and developed European support- and infrastructures for cross-border journalism. She combines journalism practice, entrepreneurial activities, teaching/training and academic research.

Read more on her website www.alfter.dk