Welcome to the New Media Workshop

Hi, everybody!

We are the team of the New Media Workshop at the “New Media. All interactive. All public” seminar organized by the European Youth Press in the European Parliament and we’re delighted to present our work during 3 days of seminars, panel discussions and workshops.

Our new media workshop focused mostly on how do European Institutions communicate online and whether they are reaching their audience the way they planned.

The main questions we wanted to find an answer for in our new media production were:

Is new media a platform for democratic participation?

Are new media changing the balance of power?

Can European institutions ever communicate like Obama?

Find our answers, our opinions, our thoughts and ideas in the following articles uploaded on this webpage. We tried to catch images, to write down stories, to record interviews and to give you a glimpse of how’s the life of a journalist inside the European Parliament, reporting for new media on how the EU institutions make use of such tools.

We also had the opportunity to meet Simon McDermott, co-founder of Attentio (social media agency), founder of New Media Cloud and non-Executive Director of the free magazine The Word.

Please don’t hesitate to join our team and write about whatever preoccupies you, as young journalists across the world!

We’re proudly presenting our workshop team:

Vera Ragone

Vera Ragone is a graduate student in International Relations. She started working as a journalist at the age of 18. Vera worked with the European platform of news and information Efors.eu in Berlin and she has collaborated with the Italian geopolitical review Equilibri.net. Her area of expertise are German Forein Policy and European Relations towards East.

Davide Sassarini

Davide has a degree in Disciplines of Arts, Music and Entertainment of University of Bologna. He had some journalism experiences during an internship in a Local Newspaper called “Il Secolo XIX” and during and internship in a local editorial office. He’s focused mostly on web and social media, and he’s currently collaborating as online journalist on different websites: Agendacomunicazione, Gizmodo It. He’s also the Italy country Coordinator for the brand new social network “YouthMedia.Eu”.

Andreas Giambartolomei

Andrea is a 24yr old student and journalist. He has an BA in Communication and a “Certification d’Etudes politiques”. He is currently based in Turin. He has been intern at the Representation in Milan of the European Commission, at the Turkish Daily News, Corriere della Sera and Repubblica.

Belinda Lopez

Belinda Lopez worked in radio, print and online journalism in Australia and Indonesia before moving to Europe this year. She is Spanish, but is yet to work in the media there. It is on her to-do list. She is currently taking an Erasmus Mundus masters in international relations, globalization and economics, aimed at journalists. The course is split between Aarhus in Denmark, Amsterdam and London, and she is enjoying working as a journalist in several different European countries alongside her studies.

Alberto Bianchi

Alberto has a BA in International Cooperation and he’s a MA students in International Economics and Politics. He writes for an italian university students’ newspaper, about innovation, creativity, new media and he’s involved in the activities of the Italian Network of University Press.

Paolo Goglia

Paolo was born in Italy in 7 May 1983. He has an BA in International Cooperation, and development and an MA in Innovation and Development. In 2005 he attended the European course in European Studies analyzing the Constitutional treaty and its failure. He has worked for the University La Sapienza as researcher and he has different experience working with NGOs. He worked as journalist for the Italian National Youth Forum Magazine and actually he collaborate for the Magazine EstArea.

Denisa Nica | Workshop Facilitator

Denisa has a BA in Journalism and Communication Studies, a MA in Security and Defense and has previously worked in online media, written press and radio. She is strongly involved in the young journalists movement and works for different youth media NGOs.