Elina Makri
Elina Makri was selected for the 2021 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Sisters of Europe.’
Elina Makri is an independent journalist and media project manager. She was born in Athens, studied Law in France, International and European Law in Belgium and has been trained on Data Journalism & Computational Reporting at the Columbia Journalism School in New York. She is the co-founder of oikomedia.com, a digital platform designed to help cross-border collaborations of media professionals and implement cross-border journalism projects. Since 2006, she has participated and implemented various projects related to new media, always involving European journalists and teams. In 2012 she received the Charlemagne Youth Prize for the cafebabel.com European wide project “Europe on the ground”. Since 2014, she works closely with tech professionals for the creation of technological tools that help journalists, organized a Data Journalism hackathon and done data investigations about water mismanagement as well as international migration. Elina enjoys working in the editorial side of media as much as on the business side. Should you want to check more about her work, just tap here.
Prune Antoine
Prune Antoine was selected for the 2021 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Sisters of Europe.’
Prune Antoine is a French independent reporter, fiction writer and editor. She lived in England, Spain, Hungary, Brussels or Paris before moving to Berlin in 2008. Her print or multimedia award-winning stories through contemporary Europe, from Germany to former USSR and Balkans, focus mainly on women issue, post-conflict societies and the rise of extremisms. Her first book “La Fille & le Moudjahidine” (Editions Carnets Nord, 2015) depicts the daily life of a young Northern Caucasian MMA’s fighter and refugee living in a small Eastern German’s city. Fascinated by the Tsarnaev brothers, the two terrorists of the Boston bombing, she oscillates this between religious radicalization and the desire to go and fight in Syria, and periods of dreaming of the comfort of a settled life in Germany. Her second book, “L’heure d’été” (Editions Anne Carrière/Points, 2019) was selected for the Prix Goncourt du premier roman: an uncompromising portrait of a city in turmoil, Berlin, describing as well the joys, doubts, hopes and despairs of the Millenials generation. When she isn’t writing, Prune runs cross-border journalistic projects like Sisters of Europe, gathering a new generation of authors from Europe and beyond.