Babel reporter : the idea
Friday, December 21 2007
Babel Reporter for Dummies!
By Chakal on Friday, December 21 2007, 16:45
Everything you want to know about Babel Reporter project. Step by step. Follow the guide!
Thursday, November 22 2007
The concept of Babel Reporter
By Prune on Thursday, November 22 2007, 19:37
Basically the articles we want to produce will be organised around 3 subjects: society /culture/ tourism & travel.
Topics have to be fresh, original and European, easily identifiable as 'Babelian'.
If the project works as expected, the expeditions take place every 2 to 3 months, with various transnational teams : 3 x 2 (photograph + writer) of different nationalities.
At first, destinations will be focused on Eastern Europe. Our general concept tends to focus on the youngest generations while being aware of the East-West gap and always anticipating the forthcoming news.
The economical model
By Prune on Thursday, November 22 2007, 19:28
The economic viability of this 'Babel agency' is based on one drastic principle : selling and reselling again, hre and there, in as many countries we can.
This means that each team of 2 Babel Reporters will sell its articles two times: the first time in the country of the photographer, the second time in the country of the journalist. Doing this, we put in common everyone's personal network.
Once this step done, thanks to the network of cafebabel.com's, the article can be resold to other magazines in Europe.
The innovative system of republication ensures incomes for everyone: the Babel Reporters, the resellers, and cafebabel.com.
Want to know more about the revenue sharing and the nuts and bolts of the Babel Reporter system? Visit this post: Babel Reporter for dummies.
Wednesday, November 21 2007
Babel reporter, première!
By Prune on Wednesday, November 21 2007, 17:07
Flexibility and improvisation ! Those are the two key-words for a challenging journalistic experiment, called 'Babel Reporter'.
The idea ? To create a transnational collective of European reporters (writers and photographers) in order to realise a serie of 'different features' in a wide range of countries in Europe. Nothing really new under the sun? Thanks to this specific multicultural approach and the Babelian 'savoir faire' concerning the quality and the originality of the issues treated, our journalists will report about uncovered realities of European cities.