Jacopo Ottaviani

Jacopo Ottaviani is an ICFJ Knight Fellow and works as data editor at Code for Africa. He is busy building a team of developers, designers and reporters to produce cross-border journalism and develop digital tools for media.He is experienced in data journalism, digital cartography, immersive storytelling and transnational data projects, and builds narratives and visualisations around data and fieldwork. His works have been published by, among others, DER SPIEGEL, El País, Al Jazeera, De Correspondent and Internazionale.

In 2016 he launched «Lungs of the Earth», an immersive journey across the rainforests of the world and #Borderline, an interactive atlas of migration in Europe.

He is co-author of ‘The Migrants’ Files‘, a cross-border data project that uncovered exclusive information on the human and economic costs of immigration in Europe. The project was awarded with the Data Journalism Awards 2014 and the European Media Prize 2015.

In 2015 he made the web-documentary ‘E-waste Republic‘ which was awarded with the DIG Awards 2015 and the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize 2015.

In 2014-15 he coordinated ‘Generation E‘, a crowdsourced data project that unveiled findings about intra-european youth migration, published by 10+ international media.

Jacopo Ottaviani won the 2015 European Press Prize Innovation Award with ‘The Migrants’ Files: Surveying ­migrants’ deaths at Europe’s door’ and was selected for the 2016 shortlist with ‘E-Waste Republic’

Walter Mayr

Walter Mayr (1960), born in Aichach, Germany, joined DER SPIEGEL in 1990. Between 1991 and 1995 Mayr mainly covered the Balkan Wars. From 1999 to 2002 he headed SPIEGEL ‘s Vienna Bureau and from 2003 to 2006 the Moscow Bureau, covering issues in the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union. Since 2013, he is based in Rome, in charge of covering Italy and the Vatican. For reconstructing the events during the Beslan tragedy in 2004, Mayr along with five of his colleagues, received the Henri Nannen Award.

Walter Mayr was selected for the 2016 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Besondere Verdienste’