At a time when online publishing was deeply contested, a group of people came together and took a leap of faith. Following a series of conferences, the #Eurozine network was established in 1998. Today, with over 100 partner journals across #Europe, one goal remains: to turn it into a starting point for #European debate. With English being the lingua franca and in the face of multimedia, the fight for space continues.

00:00 Quick summary of the topic 00:39 Introduction of our guests 01:54 Historical review of the foundation of the editorial network 08:01 Print media meets digitalization 12:16 Lingua franca and making the connection from East to West 16:56 Publishing again is at it's turning point now in the era of AI 22:40 Maintaining an anchoring position in stormy waters 25:46 Print publishing is threatened but so is digital 29:33 Will the essay as genre keep living on? 30:40 In-house concert for goodbye

Guest: Judith Vidal-Hall is a member of the Eurozine Advisory Board and has been recently appointed to the board of Centre Librexpression. She is a former editor of the free expression magazine Index on Censorship.

Andrea Fredriksson-Zederbauer is co-editor of the Eurozine partner journal Wespennest and a translator from Swedish.

Carl Henrik Fredriksson is a Swedish literary critic, columnist, essayist, and translator based in Vienna. He was Eurozine‘s first editor-in-chief from 1998 until 2015, and was previously the editor-in-chief of Swedish partner journal Ord&Bild.

Walter Famler is a publisher, harmonium player, and the general secretary of the Alte Schmiede Kunstverein in Vienna. He is one of the founding Editors of Eurozine and has been a long-term editor of Eurozine’s founding partner journal Wespennest.

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Creative team Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief Salma Shaka, writer-editor Merve Akyel, art director Szilvia Pintér, producer Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant Zsófia Gabriella Papp, production associate

Management Hermann Riessner managing director Judit Csikós project manager Csilla Nagyné Kardos, office administration

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