The two-month program aims to help news organizations adopt product design methodologies in their workflow in order to become more sustainable and efficient.
Ana Gómez Parra was selected together with 24 other journalists from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa who work in different types of media such as magazines, newspapers, television, and radio. The process will be guided by experts from the media industry and product design field.
The program will support the team’s learning in order to develop technological products that can help the work carried out by the Maldita.es newsroom in the fight against disinformation.
The other 24 selected journalists are:
- Ismail Akwei is editor-in-chief of the AfricaWeb group (Ghana).
- Quentin Ariès is reporter and editor at ereb magazine (Belgium).
- Samya Ayish is communications director at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (United Arab Emirates).
- Ilia Donskikh leads translations and publications at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) (Netherlands).
- Anita E. Eboigbe is editor at HumAngle Membership (Nigeria).
- Alexandru Enășescu is editor and founder of Iașul nostru (Romania).
- Ahmed Esmat is product and digital transformation lead at E3lam (Egypt).
- Catherine Gicheru is director of the African Women Journalism Project (Kenya).
- Frankie Goodway is head of production at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (United Kingdom).
- Paul Ilado is head of production at Radio Africa Group (Kenya).
- Pius Katunzi is editor-in-chief of The Observer (Uganda).
- Omar Mostafa is digital strategist at Al-Fanar Media (Egypt).
- Domenico Mussolino is founder and editor-in-chief of CyberCrimeClues (Italy).
- Winston Mwale is founder and editor-in-chief of AfricaBrief (Malawi).
- Nelly Kalu is presenter at Yes 101.7 FM Ibadan (Nigeria).
- Timi Odueso is reporter at TechCabal (Nigeria).
- Tanya Pampalone is business development associate for Media Hack Collective, Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, Alibi Investigations, and Daily Maverick (South Africa).
- Maya Plentz is founder and editor-in-chief of The UN Brief (Switzerland).
- Niahson Porte is co-owner of FrontPage Africa (Liberia).
- Calvin Rock is reporter and fact-checker at Africa Uncensored (Kenya).
- Giulio Rubino is investigative reporter and editor-in-chief at Irpimedia (Italy).
- Zoltán Sipos is editor-in-chief of Átlátszó Erdély (Romania).
- Iñaki Soto is editor-in-chief of GARA (Spain).
- Emilie Sueur is editor-in-chief of L’Orient-Le Jour (Lebanon).