Scena9 is a journalism publication that examines the cultural life of Romania (and beyond).

We are a website founded in 2016 with a focus on cultural subjects, but covering a very wide range of interests starting from the environment to social issues, and foreign affairs. We publish various types of articles, from reportages, to interviews, reviews, investigations or profiles. Our preferred medium is online text, but we also produce and publish videos and podcasts on various topics, ranging from the well-being of mothers and parents in Romania to the history of the earliest Romanian immigrants to America. We also have one print edition per year.

We publish mostly in Romanian, but occasionally also translate some of our articles in English. Our typical reader is an urban person around 35 years old. We reach around one million readers annually, with a social media following of 23.300 followers on Instagram and 43.000 on Facebook. We are a small team of 5 full time employees (and one on maternity leave), 3 reporters and 2 editors, but work with a large number of collaborators that help us cover many subjects.

Scena9

Basic information

Name
Scena9
Country
Romania
City
Bucharest

Supported projects

AI Challenges and Online Violence: Keeping Children Safe

  • Exploitation
  • Technology

BUCHAREST / MADRID / KYIV - From cyberbullying and cyberharassment, exposure to harmful content and hate speech, to online child sexual abuse and exploitation, statistics show that all are on the rise, and digital safety for the youngest citizens has become a global concern.

Malu Jaramillo

From Crime to Community: The Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets

  • Corruption

ROME/MADRID/BUCHAREST - Every year, law enforcement authorities across Europe seize millions of euros worth of properties coming from illicit activities. Land lots, apartment buildings, warehouses, luxury cars or yachts were once belonged to members of mafia groups, arms or drug traffickers and other criminal actors.

Luis Soto

How to Protect the Unique Ecosystems of the Danube

  • Environment
  • Transport

DANUBE - Romania and Ukraine share a very important river — the Danube. As a transport artery, one of the mouths of the Danube started to be used at the beginning of the war for export. 

Ioana Cîrlig

The Good Fashion

  • Environment
  • Industry

BUCHAREST - EU residents are buying 40% more clothing than a few decades ago, with less than half being collected for reuse and only 1% recycled. The investigation focused on understanding whether the alternatives to fast fashion are sustainable from an economic, social, and environmental perspective.

Katerina Hefler

The Quiet Invasion. Impact of Invasive Species

  • Environment

SANT'ANGELO in VADO / BUCHAREST - As people and goods migrate from one place to another, so too do plants, insects, and animals. Some of these species survive the journey, multiply uncontrollably, and profoundly affect their new ecosystems — in which case they are considered invasive species.

Afsarnayakkan, Vespa Watch

Ukraine and Romania's shared garbage problems and solutions

  • Environment

TARGU LAPUS / DRAHOBRAT - This investigation looks at three localities facing problems of illegal dumping, landfill development and rifts between citizens and local authorities, and what is being done to address them.