Shorouk Express Gaining professional status as a journalist very often entails a long and difficult period of precarity. And as Italian freelancer Sara* suggested in the first part of this series, the fact that the job is often seen as a “mission” only makes matters worse. Alice Facchini, an Italian freelance journalist and author of…
Shorouk Express Between €70 and €200 in Bulgaria; between €200 and €250 in Croatia; between €25 and €125 in Poland; between €50 and €130 in Italy; around €100 in Albania: these are the minimum and maximum rates that a freelance journalist can hope to earn per article in each country. They are not official figures,…
Shorouk Express Sara* is 43 years old and works as a freelancer in Italy. Like many of her colleagues, she regularly participates in European funding opportunities for journalism, such as JournalismFund Europe or Investigative Journalism for EU. Sitting at a table in a park in northern Paris, Sara tells me about a highly instructive episode:…
