Gazeta Wyborcza travels the EU

Posted by Evan Fell on November 15, 2007 at 9:30 AM

The Gazeta Wyborcza of Warsaw Poland used their latest editorial project to travel across the EU and find out how their neighbors live. The newspaper sent their local reporters to 21 cities across the EU for two weeks to immerse themselves in the lives of people from different cities and town all across the EU.

The reporters chose the locations for themselves. For example, a reporter from Warsaw traveled to Berlin, one from Cracow to Barcelona, and one from Gdansk to Amsterdam. They met hundreds of people, mayors, teachers, doctors, bus drivers, and just ordinary people.

The reporters looked into how the town or city works and how the people live. They looked at how the council gets along with the residents, the quality of transportation, the values taught in schools. They also asked what could be done to improve the state of depopulated inner-cities and the safety of streets and schools.

The reporters came back with their discoveries, asking readers to decide what the most important findings were and what could be done to change the cities of the EU. There is a two-page spread in the nationwide edition of the Gazeta and one or two pages in each of the 21 local editions.

Source: Grzegorz Piechota, special projects editor, Gazeta Wyborcza

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