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Julia Jaroschewski is a reporter and founder of Buzzing Cities Lab, a think tank focusing on digital technology and security in informal settlements such as the Favelas in Rio. She works for Die WELT, Spiegel Online, fluter and WIRED, covering mainly foreign politics, organised crime, the war on drugs and security policy. She studied in Portugal, has an MA in political sciences from Berlin and has worked for the UN in New York and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Mozambique.
Julia has attended the Axel Springer Akademie and Columbia School of Journalism. As a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Besser-Stiftung she reported from Brazil and South Africa, and from Mozambique as a scholar working for Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung. In 2016 she was part of the international journalism programme for South America, working for the Brazilian newspaper O Globo. She has also spent three months in India as a Media Ambassador for the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
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Julia was the curator of the GDL blog for several years.
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Let’s Talk About Queer Media
Journalists Julia Jaroschewski and Sonja Peteranderl, founders of BuzzingCities Lab and GDL members, organize a panel at the re:publica digital conference to discuss innovative queer media formats, visibility and diversity in newsrooms, broadcasting and cinema.
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Guinea-Bissau – Paradise With Side Effects
Malaria is still a deadly disease – on islands in Guinea Bissau, scientists are researching remedies against it, but the fragile governance and corruption of the West African country do not only burden the health system, reports GDL member Julia Jaroschewski.
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Community-Led Crisis Response – Lessons From the Pandemic
Together with local experts, GDL members Sonja Peteranderl and Julia Jaroschewski explore how inhabitants of informal settlements and communities created tools and strategies to tackle challenges in connection with the pandemic when government support was late or insufficient.
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Uncovering the Role of Women in Crime
Women play an increasingly important role in criminal organisations and terrorism, but also in the fight against crime. The OpenCrime conference that took place within the Bosch Alumni Network in Berlin revealed current challenges and blindspots in the media coverage.
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Global Changemakers: Cities as Future Labs
At the Latin America-Caribbean Conference which was held at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, GDL members and founders of the BuzzingCities Lab Julia Jaroschewski and Sonja Peteranderl initiate and organise a GDL session on the future of ever-growing cities and how insecurity, crime and migration can be addressed through new technologies and innovative approaches.