DoR

DoR has won the 2020 European Press Prize Innovation Award with ‘How DoR organized an all-team pop-up newsroom in Transylvania’.

Media DoR is a non-profit, independent journalism platform that helps a progressive audience connect, understand one another and what they can do to tackle the problems of modern day Romania. Media DoR promotes narrative storytelling as a tool to create belonging, and spotlight solutions. The flagship project is DoR, a narrative journalism quarterly that reflects, in long-form journalism (features, documented essays, personal essays, photo-stories, illustrated stories), the way society changes. Alongside the magazine, DoR produces online journalism, live storytelling shows and community-centred events.

Cătălina Dumbrăveanu

Cătălina Dumbrăveanu was selected for the 2019 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The Drums of Democracy‘

Cătălina Dumbrăveanu, together with the Are We Europe team, developed “The Drums of Democracy”, the first story of Edges of Europe, a long-term storytelling project, which looks at Europe from the very edges of its borders and the themes that shape its common future and identity. Its aim is to uncover personal stories and insights from forgotten regions at Europe’s borders by taking a collaborative approach of a local investigative team.

Cătălina has extensive experience in media-related project management and the youth non-profit sector, and holds a degree in Political Science. She is part of the Are We Europe media collective, which was founded to support emerging creative talent in Europe and promote cross-border storytelling.