MIXER
A platform for journalism
that needed a room.
What It Was
Mixer was a container for whatever journalism needed next.
Built to support journalists, independent outlets, and storytellers across Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Mixer grew directly out of the Outriders network. When the projects got too big to stay inside one organisation, Mixer was given its independence. It concluded as a platform in 2025, but its methodology continues through new formats and communities.
The Timeline
Outriders Summit
The gathering that made the case for participant models.
European Meetup Tour
Building the network across Bucharest, Athens, Budapest, Minsk.
Garage & Media Garage
Pandemic response and sustainability accelerators.
Media and War
Conflict reporting one hour from the Ukrainian border.
Sarajevo × Point
Workshops on podcasting and YouTube in the Balkans.
Mixer Festival
The intersection of journalism, art, and public experience.
CEE.AI Lab
AI adoption on Central and Eastern Europe's own terms.
The Projects
Meetup Tour
The 8-city European tour that preceded the platform.
Garage
Online meetups for journalism during the pandemic.
Media Garage
Sustainability accelerator for Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine.
Canaries
Video documentary series on independent journalism.
Media and War
Conference on conflict reporting in Rzeszów.
Sarajevo
Balkan trends in podcasting and YouTube.
Mixer Festival
Journalism meets art in a physical space.
CEE.AI Lab
AI adoption for mid-size newsrooms in CEE.
How It
Lives On
Mixer concluded as a platform. But the methodology continues through new workshop formats, has fed directly into the emergence of artistic journalism as a practice, and is now informing a new generation of AI journalism workshops.
The community — five years of shared rooms across Warsaw, Rzeszów, Sarajevo, Athens, Bucharest, Budapest, Minsk and Lviv — remains active on Telegram.
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