Spyros Tzortzis, Author at Qurio

International Journalism Festival 2023 #ijf23

Mar 31, 2023 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

It’s that time of the year! The highly anticipated International Journalism Festival has returned to the historic city of Perugia, boasting over 400 knowledgeable speakers in various concurrent sessions focused on the latest developments in journalism. From April 19th to 23rd, the (super excited) Qurio team will attend this one-of-a-kind event to learn from industry leaders, engage in meaningful discussions; and hopefully, meet and discuss with you too, dear reader, if you plan to attend!

Product Update – March 2023

Mar 21, 2023 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

Hello curious people,

This is our first-ever product update! We aim to provide regular updates regarding the development of our software platform in order to keep you in the loop of what we’re building for you and also get your feedback as soon as possible.

Our newsroom & media database is now publicly available

Mar 02, 2023 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

This post is part of our series regarding the newsroom & media database we are building here at Qurio. Make sure to read our initial post, which covers the methodology that we follow and the insights we take from our database.

📜 Building a database for the news & media ecosystem (Dec 16, 2022)

Let’s start by taking a look at our original article from a few months ago:

At Qurio, we’re on a mission to serve all these segments, while helping small and medium-sized newsrooms. And that’s where we find the most difficulty; in mapping this landscape that’s under massive organizational, commercial, and technological evolution.

We stand still behind this aspiration.

Today we are putting our shared views of our database available for everyone.

Wanna get Qurio? Come on in!

Mar 01, 2023 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

Almost two years since we first began on this journey, dozens of interviews with audience engagement editors, community managers, and executives from local newsrooms and nonprofit media, we are ready for some big announcements:

Building a database for the news & media ecosystem

Dec 16, 2022 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

What I learned trying to bring together a database with leads about newsrooms.

Engaged Journalism workshop in Lithuania

Oct 20, 2022 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

Following a very kind invitation to the “Spark to Journalism: Engaged Journalism” workshop earlier in October by Media4Change, I had the chance to travel to Lithuania, meet amazing journalists and researchers from all over Europe, and represent Qurio in a vitalizing 4-day workshop at Antalieptė, in Central Lithuania.

This is Qurio

Mar 09, 2022 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

Qurio means being curious about facts, your community & the world. This is the beginning of our new journey.

Local newsrooms are pillars of a local community, they should act more like that

Nov 04, 2021 Posted by
Spyros Tzortzis

This post was originally published on Medium.

When I started writing this article I felt that each word brought the next one like a chain unraveling inside my Google Docs (please excuse me, otherwise fascinating Medium editor!). To be honest, I shouldn’t be that surprised, since I’ve been thinking a lot about what you are about to read for quite some time before I finally sat down and put them into (digital) paper.