On the streets of Amsterdam, guest producers/media students from the Thomas More University in Flanders - Lukas Emmerechts and Nataliya Huchok - ask people one question: "Who or what influences who you vote for?"

If we expect our stories to truly portray European core values, identity, and politics, we need journalists where news doesn't make it out of local headlines. This podcast is about those stories and how they have been told by media makers.

In this episode, recorded during The Circle's Design Sprint in Porto, Portugal, Are We Europe's Giada Santana speaks with Hostwriter's Tina Lee, editor in chief of Unbias the News, and local producer Luis Fernandes. They discuss Portuguese journalism, the difficult life of creatives in the country, and how to represent the underrepresented.

This podcast is part of The Circle, a EU-funded project created to increase opportunities for local and cross-border media collaboration.

Credits:

Sound design & production: Giada Santana

Project Overview: Teresa O' Connell

Music: Fado da Mouraria, Joao Victoria

Are We Europe's Mya Berger interviews Jarek Oleszczynski, one of the creators behind the photo story “The Forgotten Remedy” from our latest magazine, Vices & Values.

On the streets of Martinique - still considered an overseas region of France - Producer Giada Santana asks people one question: "How has climate change affected you?"

From Minsk and London, a story about the meaning of freedom. Hanna Komar, a poet, was jailed for her activism in Belarus. This week, she tells us what it’s like to move from a place where people have to fight for basic rights, to a place where people take them for granted.

This week, a story about Mohamed, living in limbo while trapped in a labyrinth of bureaucracy.

A story that spans three generations of women: Sara, her mother, and her grandmother. In their collective lifetimes, Albania entered a communist dictatorship; the regime fell; and then there was a transition. And through it all, there was a dish: trahana.

On the streets of Berlin, Producer Stefano Montali asks people one question: "When's the last time you were very happy?"

Are We Europe's Creative Director, Eddie Stok and Designer, Ana Rodrigues, discuss the creation of the latest magazine, Down To Earth.

Climate activist Cass Hebron spoke to Are We Europe's Editor-in-Chief Anneleen Ophoff about her newsletter "The Green Fix", and making the changes needed to have a positive impact on the climate crisis.