From September to November 2007, I was Managing Editor of a short project for the highly-regarded online poltics magazine openDemocracy.net.

Focussing on a project run jointly by the European Commission, Stanford University and polling company TNS, within two days of landing the job I was in Brussels attending the launch of the Tomorrow’s Europe deliberative poll, around which the dLiberation blog was to revolve.

Over the next two months, I produced a broad range of content focussing both on the poll itself (a unique experiment in multilingual deliberative polling, bring together people from every EU member state in the European Parliament in Brussels to debate the future of Europe, the language barriers broken down by scores of professional interpreters, and barriers to understanding overcome through access to teams of experts from all political persuasions), with contributions from senior academics, politicians and journalists from all backgrounds and opinions.

The project would go on to win me the Jury’s Commendation in the UACES-Reuters Reportin Europe Awards 2008.