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founder, CEO, MedyaN, Berlin, Germany

Nalan Sipar

JSK-IAJS Fellow, Class of 2025

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.