Alison Langley

Chasing a lie from Switzerland to Sri Lanka

Olivia Ramya Tanner traveled to Sri Lanka to find her birth mother. Then the Swiss woman…
Republik set crowdfunding records. Then reality hit.

By Alison Langley January 28, 2019 View original story here Republik, a Swiss news startup, raised…
Can She Help Restore Trust in the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Because the literature prize has been a stuffy boys club for too long. This OZY series…
Can the EU Survive Without Swiss Chocolate?

Similar to the UK’s Brexit talks, Switzerland is locked in increasingly tense negotiations about its future.
Want to quell hate speech online? Talk to right-wing politicians

Populist politicians set the tone on European social media, while hate speech on Facebook and Twitter…
Free and easy admissions leave Vienna’s universities swamped

Largely without tuition fees and open to all, institutions have seen their intakes soar
MBA project at Cern develops device to bring electricity to refugees

Students worked with scientists at particle physics facility to help displaced people
‘Ping-pong migrants’ play waiting game at Slovenia’s borders

As many EU countries introduce new rules governing who may cross their borders amid the massive…
So Long, Farewell

In the spring, when Syrian refugees began walking across the Hungarian border into Austria, they came…
Win-Win for Syrian Doctor and Austrian Town

Not long ago Rabee al Refai and his family were dodging bombs in Syria. Now they’re…
New Islamic law sparks controversy in Austria

This story first appeared on dw.de. The Austrian parliament…
Austria suffering fallout from Russian sanctions

This story first appeared on dw.de While the world waits to…
The Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger: putting fossil-fuel divestment on the agenda

By Alison Langley AFTER ALAN RUSBRIDGER ANNOUNCED last December that he would step down as…
Hungary’s RTL faces tough taxes

This article first appeared in cjr.org. The government takes on the investigative news channel…
European Union journalists cross borders for story collaboration

This article first appeared in cjr.org Reporters are taking continent-wide investigations one step further…
A different take on Syria

This article first appeared in cjr.org Jihad Yazigi discusses why The Syria Report sticks…
Meet Ukraine’s Media Moguls

This article first appeared on CJR.org Russia’s advance into Crimea has transformed Ukrainian television…
Topless women endure in the UK press

Women have been organizing against the tabloid mainstay, but some editors maintain that it’s…
Go West – In the quest for digital-age prosperity, legacy newsrooms are making pilgrimages to Silicon Valley

This article first appeared the Columbia Journalism Review Magazine. November 1, 2013 by Alison Langley…
In Vienna’s Musikverein, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra earns high praise

November 5, 2012 By Alison Langley VIENNA, Austria — For every human, there is a point…