Director of Journalismfund.eu (Brussels)

Brigitte Alfter is the Director ofJournalismfund.eu, which supports investigative cross-border journalism in Europe.

Since 2001 she has been covering European affairs, from 2004 to 2008 she was the Brussels correspondent of the Danish daily Information.

She is a co-founder of the www.farmsubsidy.org network, where journalists, academics and activists since 2004 have united to unveil the recipients of the 50+ billion Euro farmsubsidies by using freedom of information legislation. She also is a co-founder and editor of Wobbing.eu, a network and website for journalists who use FOI legislation as a journalistic tool.

Alfer co-founded Journalismfund.eu in 2009 in order to provide necessary means to cover Europe, where journalistic coverage is hampered by language and other barriers. In 2003 Alfter was a co-founder of the Scoop project that gives research stipendia to investigative journalists in the Balkans, Moldova and the Ukraine on a journalists-help-journalists model.

Brigitte Alfter is the Chairperson of the International Committee of the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism and a Board Member in German Netzwerk Recherche.