European
Meetup Tour
The tour that built Mixer. Ten cities, hundreds of journalists, one mission: to rethink how we tell stories.
Before Mixer existed as a platform, there was a tour.
Between October 2018 and late 2019, the Outriders network organised journalism meetups in eight European cities. Each one brought together local journalists and media workers around a single topic. No keynotes. No panels. Practitioners in a room.
The Cities
Outriders Summit: Story Begins
Participant models, impactful storytelling, and audience-centric journalism.
Ann Marie Lipinski, Tina Rosenberg, Natalia Żaba
Meetup: Membership Models
Membership models and audience engagement strategies.
Katharine Quarmby, Emily Goligoski, Sebastian Esser
Meetup: Serve and Engage
Building real relationships with your audience.
Dr. Dimitris Xenakis, Madalina Ciobanu
Meetup: Social Impact
How journalism creates social impact. 80+ journalists gathered.
Eva Constantaras, Blanka Zöldi, Vlad Ursulean
Meetup: Cross-border
Cross-border stories and remote newsroom management.
Local & regional practitioners
Meetup: Investigative
Investigative journalism in the Balkans.
Regional investigative reporters
Meetup: Independent Media
Independent media under political pressure.
Local independent editors
Meetup: Ukrainian Journalism
Ukrainian journalism and cross-border reporting.
Cross-border reporting experts
Meetup: Belarus Media
Independent media in Belarus before the 2020 crackdown.
Belarusian independent journalists
Outriders Stage
The future of storytelling and global perspectives.
Darren Long, Sonny Swe, Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, Bidhya Chapagain
What it became
This tour led directly to the creation of Mixer. The community built through these shared rooms across Warsaw, Bucharest, Athens, and Minsk became the foundation for a platform that would support European journalism for the next five years.