Brigitte Alfter (EU, DK, D)

Brigitte Alfter, editor-in-chief

Brigitte Alfter, born 1966 in Germany, is a journalist based in Copenhagen and covering Europe.

Brigitte is the director of the European Fund for Investigative Journalism, which supports quality journalism and cross-border journalistic research through research grants.

From 2004-2008 she was the Brussels-correspondent for the Danish daily newspaper Information, she is a co-founder of Farmsubsidy.org and she is the manager of the Scoop project.

Brigitte has covered European affairs and EU-matters for a number of years, she uses freedom of information legislation as a journalistic tool and conducts training on the subject. She is knowledgeable in media, human right, justice- and home affairs and minority issues.

In 2007-2008 she participated in a research team of the Investigative Reporters Network Europe, where journalists join forces for cross-border researches. The story was about pharmaceuticals, the research was published at the same time in Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.

A board member of the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism FUJ from 2002-2007, she is since 2008 the chairperson of FUJ’s International Committee. Also she is a board member of the German association Netzwerk Recherche. Brigitte is a member of Åbenhedstinget, a Danish network of journalist's and public officials on freedom of information access to electronic documents, under the Danish journalism training center Update. She is a founding member of the Digital Diggers.

In December 2006 Brigitte was among the nominees for the Danish Cavling award, the most important journalist award in Denmark. And in 2007 she was on the winning team for the Freedom of Information Award of the American Investigative Editors and Reporters, IRE.

She can be reached at brig@mail.dk