This document summarizes a global network that facilitates collaboration between journalists from around the world. The network allows journalists to create profiles, find colleagues based on location and expertise, provide advice to one another, and co-author stories. Over 3,200 journalists from 123 countries are part of the network, using it to improve reporting through international collaboration.

4. Enabling better reporting by facilitating
cross border contacts between journalists
worldwide.
How do we get there?

5. We are a global network for contact and collaboration
between journalists.
Launched May 2014
In a nutshell

6. What we do
Advice Co-authorship Couch
3200+ journalists in 123 countries

7. Create a profile with basic info and work samples
How it works

8. Find journalists by location, expertise, language,…
How it works

9. Co-authorship
@giannellisilvia • Lucca
»After having used hostwriter to
do a story about #refugees I’m
even more convinced that
international collaboration is the
key to quality journalism.«
Proof of concept

10. Proof of concept
@HanneCoudere • Antwerp
»We worked with wonderful
colleagues in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, and
Turkey who we found on
hostwriter while we were on
#theherointrail.«

11. Projects

13. Workshop in Yerevan

14. Working in a virtual newsroom

15. Result: Agora Project Dossier
@HanneCoudere • Antwerp
»We worked with wonderful
colleagues in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, and
Turkey who we found on
hostwriter while we were on
#theherointrail.«
http://agroa.hostwriter.org