Isabella Kurkowski (M.A.)
Isabella Kurkowski is Managing Director of a 27 country EU media project entitled “Covering Cohesion Policy in Europe – Training MOOC for European Journalism Students” (COPE).
Kurkowski is an international media development expert and lecturer at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism of the Technical University Dortmund, Germany. She has led different EU media projects in the past and supported the implementation of media self-regulatory institutions in several countries. Focus of her work are media development, media democracy and media accountability in post-conflict countries.
Kurkowski worked from 2019 to 2023 as Regional Coordinator of projects in the MENA region at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, including the countries Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia. From 2014-2018 she was deployed as Country Representative of DW Akademie in Myanmar and from 2007-2013 as seconded Media Expert Advisor to the Executive Director of the Press Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Prior to this she was from 2003-2007 the Media Programme Manager of Media-Im-Pakt and worked as intermediary organization for the Stability Pact for South East Europe under the EU Media Task Force as well as the Germany Foreign Office and was responsible for the coordination of media development projects in eleven countries of the Western Balkans with a distribution of funds worth 3,4 Mio EUR per year.
Kurkowski is providing consultancy related to Media Accountability and Media Development towards the OSCE, UNESCO, European Commission as well as the Council of Europe.
Publications
- Co-Author and Editor of the COPE E-Book publication Fengler et al. (2024). COPE Covering Cohesion Policy in Europe - Training Materials for European Journalism Students. TU Dortmund. DOI e-Book: http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-24166
- Co-Author of the UNESCO publication Fengler, S., Lengauer, M., & Zappe, A.-C. (eds.). (2021). Reporting on Migrants and Refugees. Handbook for Journalism Educators. Paris: UNESCO.
- Editor of the publication Fengler, S., Kurkowski, I., & Lengauer, M. (2021). Media Accountability in the MENA region. TU Dortmund University. Doi: 10.17877/DE290R-21921
- Co-Author of the Fengler, S., Eberwein, T., & Karmasin, M. (eds.). (2022). The Global Handbook of Media Accountability. Oxfordshire: Routledge
- Kurkowski, I. (2016). Verantwortung in Zeiten demokratischer Transformation. Communicatio Socialis, 49(4), 399-403. Retrieved from: https://ejournal.communicatio-socialis.de/index.php/cc/article/download/1343/1341/2655
- Kurkowski, I. (2024). MOOC für die Journalistenausbildung zur EU-Kohäsionspolitik: Das COPE-Projekt. Retrieved from: https://de.ejo-online.eu/in-eigener-sache/mooc-fuer-die-journalistenausbildung-zur-eu-kohaesionspolitik-das-cope-projekt
- Kurkowski, I. (2023). Stärkung der Medienselbstregulierung in Tunesien. European Journalism Observatory. Retrieved from: https://de.ejo-online.eu/medienpolitik/staerkung-der-medienselbstregulierung-in-tunesien
- Kurkowski, I. (2023). Roadmap für einen unabhängigen Presserat in Polen. European Journalism Observatory. Retrieved from: https://de.ejo-online.eu/pressefreiheit/roadmap-fuer-einen-unabhaengigen-presserat-in-polen
- Kurkowski, I., Sidyk-Furman, D., & Mikucki, J. (2022). Round Table Discussion: "Enhancing Independent and Effective Media Self-Regulation in Poland": Warsaw, Poland, January 28, 2022. Central European Journal of Communication, 15(2(31), 317-321. Retrieved from https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/426
- Kurkowski, I., & Sidyk-Furman, D. (2023). Establishing Effective Media Self-Regulation in Poland: Media Accountability Working Group Meeting in Gdańsk and Sopot. Central European Journal of Communication, 15(3(32), 501-514. Retrieved from https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/518