Nalan Sipar
Nalan Sipar is a journalist and founder and CEO of her non-profit media startup, MedyaN. In 2014, Sipar presented Germany’s first German-Turkish children’s radio show, which was awarded the German Radio Award. She later completed a traineeship at the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, In 2020 Sipar produced and hosted Germany’s first immigrant “Late Night Show.”
After identifying vast disinformation regarding the coronavirus among German-Turks, the largest migrant community in Germany, Sipar started making news about the pandemic in Turkish on her YouTube channel. Sipar has received a Media Startup Fellowship from Media Lab Bayern and was also a participant to the European Journalism Center’s YouTube News Creator Accelerator Program.