Eric Willemsen (1970) is a Dutch freelance journalist, based in Vienna since 2005. He covers sports, media and general news in Austria for international online, print and broadcast outlets. Eric, who holds degrees in Journalism and Communication Sciences, is reporting in English, Dutch, and German.

Kim Traill is a native English speaking video/print/photo journalist, based in Vienna since 2012.

From 1990 - 2016, Kim has lived and worked in the former USSR for multiple periods, totalling approximately 5 years. 

During this time, she traveled extensively throughout Russia, Ukraine, Read moreCentral Asia and the Baltic states. Kim speaks Russian, German and has a large network of contacts in many spheres of society, including media and human rights organisations.

Between 1999 - 2015, Kim researched and filmed many long form documentaries in the former USSR, Afghanistan and Cuba for SBS Australia’s international current affairs program, Dateline. 

Among others, these include films about: the conflict in Chechnya; repression of media in Russia; the rise of Russian nationalism; the persecution of opposition activists in Belarus; drug addiction and the HIV epidemic in the former USSR; nuclear pollution; Russia’s ‘anti-gay propaganda’ law; and Chechen refugees from Vienna fighting in Syria.

Kim has also worked separately as producer, camera, fixer, translator and reporter for various programs broadcast on ABC Australia, BBC Newsnight, PressTV, Puls4.

Her book - Red Square Blues - The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union - was published in 2009 by HarperCollins.

More recently, Kim has freelanced as a journalist/photographer for ABC Australia’s online news features, reporting from Austria, Ukraine and Russia on social and political issues. 

For more information, see www.kimtraill.com

Claudia Tschabuschnig is a journalist based in Vienna, Austria. She previously worked for the foreign policy department of the Austrian Press Agency, the editorial departments of ORF.at, the broadcast channel Puls4News, where she was responsible for the development of a mobile news app, as well as Read moreseveral newspapers, including Standard. at. She wrote features and interviews for the special interest magazine Medinlive, which revolves around medicine, science, and society. Currently she works as Correspondent for the "European Correspondent", where she is also part of the OSINT investigative team.

Portfolio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tschabuschnig/
https://www.europeancorrespondent.com/profile?c=Claudia-Tschabuschnig

Christian Cummins, born in 1979, journalist based in Wien, Austria. He's the Austrian Environmental Journalist of the Year (radio) 2018 and winner of the silver medal at the Austrian Radio Prize 2016.  He has 17 years of experience at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as a spell at Read moreGhana's Vibe Fm4 radio with further radio and television experience from Deutsche Welle, VOA and France24.  He has print experience from the Daily Telegraph and Metropole.

David Visnjic is a photographer / photojournalist and camera (video/film) operator based in Vienna/Austria. Available for whole Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serrbia, Northern Italy.

Susanne Gottlieb is a journalist based in Wien, Austria.