At the helm of Ruba Media is Mariell Raisma, a Media professional with ten years of experience in Media and Communication and over five years of experience in Project Management. Mariell has a BA in Journalism and MA in Communication from Tallinn University.
European Youth Press. She is a former executive board member and current advisory board member of European Youth Press (EYP), which is a network of youth media organisations in Europe and reaches more than 60,000 young journalists across Europe.
Additionally, she was a Project Coordinator of European Youth Media Days (EYMD) 2018 and an External Communication Manager of EYMD in 2017. It was held in the European Parliament in Brussels and brought together around one hundred young journalists.
Speaker. As a former board member of EYP, she has been organising media trainings and participated as trainer at events connected to media literacy. For instance, in Berlin, Prague, Athens, Strasbourg, Brussels.
Communications and Media Education. Mariell’s experience in communication derives from Noored Kooli (Teach for Estonia), the immensely successful educational program which sends young university graduates to Estonian schools as teachers. She handled communication with the press, increased the public visibility of the participant teachers and alumni, and managed the program’s social media accounts. Additionally, she has been teaching Journalism and Multimedia at the 32nd High School for nearly four years.
Project Management. She has an international project management experience. She has been working for Lexxion Publisher as a Conference Manager where she organised international law conferences all over the Europe. She was responsible for the development, planning and implementation of the conferences. Additionally, she was responsible for selection and inviting the speakers and the planning and monitoring of the budget.
Media Events. As an active media professional, she has participated in a number of Media events all over Europe. She has contributed to several major conferences: twice for The International News Media Association (INMA) conference in Tallinn and Helsinki, and also for The European Journalism Association (EJTA) conference in Paris. She has contributed to the media handling of the MyData 2017 conference in Tallinn and Helsinki.
Lifelong learning. Mariell has participated in several Media workshops at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, such as “A Practical Guide To Social Media Verification” which focused on tools which one can use to verify information found from social media, and “Journalism in Hostile Environment. Global Journalist Security Course”. She took part in a workshop on narratology at Aarhus University, and in the Hertie School of Governance Media workshop in Berlin. She has also been involved with the activities of The Forum for European Journalism Students.
