https://katzlaszlo.me Katz Laszlo Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:13:52 +0000 https://katzlaszlo.me en https://katzlaszlo.me/hosting-moderating-public-speaking Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:13:52 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/hosting-moderating-public-speaking I speak regularly in a variety of ways at a variety of conferences and festivals. Subjects include: European politics.&nbsp;Why we need pan-European journalism, why there isn’t more of it, and how to do it well.Reporting on complex and famously “dry” issues that don’t shy away from using emotions and narrative to engage your audience.&nbsp;The way politics has shaped science, historically and into the now. Including for: SPUI25 (2026), Internazionale Festival Ferrara (2025), European Cultural Foundation (Europe Day 2025), Over Het Ij (2022), Oerol (2021),&nbsp;Imagine Science Film Festival (Labocine, NYC, 2018) INTERNAZIONALE 2025: MONDOASCOLTI <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acd418e89218f367f7f38e3966a10c349995a51a5c64e9425909665fd2170997/internazionale-katz-screening.jpg" data-mid="246125414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acd418e89218f367f7f38e3966a10c349995a51a5c64e9425909665fd2170997/internazionale-katz-screening.jpg" /> https://katzlaszlo.me/Who-Does-It-Best-Housing-The-Europeans-October-2025 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:42:58 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/Who-Does-It-Best-Housing-The-Europeans-October-2025 For The Europeans podcast, a two-part, deep dive into housing policy: We have been hearing about the housing crisis for years - so why is it not getting any better? What policy created it, across Europe and beyond? Is there anywhere in Europe with policy that gets it right? What I found was not what I expected, and opens up a frank conversation about inheritance and wealth inequality, that also shows up inside our own team. So...we decided to talk about it. Equal parts entertaining, and serious investigation.Produced for: The Europeans Podcast&nbsp;Funded by: Listeners! This series was fully crowdfunded, via 4fund &amp; Patreon&nbsp;Role: Host, Producer &amp; Reporter Visuals by RTiiikA In addition, I was the co-Editor and Executive Producer for the other episodes, on Childcare (no, Sweden did not win - researchers, you need to go to Slovenia!), and Drugs Policy.&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad5d55ef1ab75df486223b34276d78b23f3341d6b93b8fc490bb21f1f312b403/WDIB_whole-series.png" data-mid="246124972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad5d55ef1ab75df486223b34276d78b23f3341d6b93b8fc490bb21f1f312b403/WDIB_whole-series.png" /><img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/483a1f225e9bcebc742020d630b558b91f2f4c0c01e476c04b105075bb241b83/WDIB_Housing_2-1.png" data-mid="246125007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/483a1f225e9bcebc742020d630b558b91f2f4c0c01e476c04b105075bb241b83/WDIB_Housing_2-1.png" /> https://katzlaszlo.me/LUCA-The-Europeans-July-2024 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:54:33 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/LUCA-The-Europeans-July-2024 A story about Luca. One Hungarian family. One piece of land. Two very different visions. About learning to care without control, and what it means to build community in the midst of polarisation.This is the ninth episode in This is What A Generation Sounds Like, a series of participative audio portraits for The Europeans podcast. Funded by Allianz Kultuurstiftung. <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa7c6858b261146b0a9f91c07139825f13eced1bf8e9e0ac0ccf866d963400ea/Luca-Thumbnail.png" data-mid="246125329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa7c6858b261146b0a9f91c07139825f13eced1bf8e9e0ac0ccf866d963400ea/Luca-Thumbnail.png" /> Produced for: The Europeans PodcastFunded by: Allianz KultuurstiftungPress: Financial Times ; Art TribuneRole: Producer &amp; Sound Designer https://katzlaszlo.me/VALERIA-The-Europeans-February-2023 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:59:32 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/VALERIA-The-Europeans-February-2023 A story about Valeria. An overnight career change. Switching the language you love in. How war transforms your life in ways you’d never expect. And the things she wishes people in Western Europe knew, about living in Ukraine in the first year of the full scale invasion.This is the eighth episode in This is What A Generation Sounds Like, a series of participative audio portraits for The Europeans podcast. Funded by Allianz Kultuurstiftung. Role: producer &amp; sound designer <img width="637" height="633" width_o="637" height_o="633" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc1cc444a376888352ab82717d5ca14d40f562defe91cfaab3efd79ed94b1d85/Valeria-episode-artwork.jpeg" data-mid="246125320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/637/i/bc1cc444a376888352ab82717d5ca14d40f562defe91cfaab3efd79ed94b1d85/Valeria-episode-artwork.jpeg" /> Produced for: The Europeans PodcastFunded by: Allianz KultuurstiftungPress: Financial Times ; Art TribuneRole: Producer &amp; Sound Designer https://katzlaszlo.me/The-Oatly-Chronicles-The-Europeans-October-2023 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:04:48 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/The-Oatly-Chronicles-The-Europeans-October-2023 For The Europeans podcast, a three-part, deep dive into Oatly: Can green capitalism save us all from climate change? How big is the problem with dairy? What’s the housing crisis got to do with it? Equal parts entertaining, and serious investigation.Produced for: The Europeans Podcast x Are We EuropeFunded by: Journalism Fund Europe, Allianz Foundation &amp; Patreon&nbsp;Role: Host, Producer &amp; Reporter Visuals by RTiiikA <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adda488fa64e813b2ec5b8f69b9f15a15e5719f44535dbd902d973fc6e5a2191/RTiiiKA_OatlyChronicles.png" data-mid="206180768" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adda488fa64e813b2ec5b8f69b9f15a15e5719f44535dbd902d973fc6e5a2191/RTiiiKA_OatlyChronicles.png" /> https://katzlaszlo.me/The-Biggest-Climate-Case-In-The-World-The-Europeans-May-2023 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:14:51 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/The-Biggest-Climate-Case-In-The-World-The-Europeans-May-2023 For The Europeans podcast, a&nbsp;deep dive into Klimaseniorinnen vs Switzerland: the biggest climate case in the world to date, held at the European Court of Human Rights. How do these courts work? And does climate change related harm fall under the jurisdiction of human rights law? We hear from the pensioned Swiss ladies taking their government to court, the lawyers on each side, and someone who watched the case unfold live. Produced for: The Europeans PodcastFunded by: Allianz Foundation &amp; Patreon&nbsp;Role: Host, Producer &amp; Reporter <img width="3088" height="2320" width_o="3088" height_o="2320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3764d4fee6a2d2edb42a1c479665c062b07a73c456b5f0e7de545caf674a14a/IMG_1669.jpg" data-mid="206181317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3764d4fee6a2d2edb42a1c479665c062b07a73c456b5f0e7de545caf674a14a/IMG_1669.jpg" /> https://katzlaszlo.me/Ukraine-Under-The-Counter-Radiolab-x-NPR-Rough-Translation-Jan-2023 Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:53:46 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/Ukraine-Under-The-Counter-Radiolab-x-NPR-Rough-Translation-Jan-2023 In the weeks following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a young doctor in Germany sees that abortion pills are urgently needed in Ukraine. And she wants to help. But getting the drugs into the country means going through Poland, which has some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. So, she gets creative. What unfolds is a high-stakes, covert-operation run by a group of strangers. Strangers across 4 continents each taking a risk -&nbsp; most never having been involved in abortion care before, and working with people they’d never met - deciding they cannot leave women without urgent, time-sensitive medication. And everyone deciding: who to trust? I was a freelance reporter, pitching this story to Radiolab and NPR’s Rough Translation, and reporting it for over a year. I travelled across Europe and into Ukraine in October 2022 to interview anonymous sources. This work was heavily informed by my pre-journalism work in sexual and reproductive health. This mini-series was in collaboration with hosts Molly Webster and Gregory Warner, as well as editor Brenna Farrel and and producers Tessa Paoli and Dan Girma, among others.&nbsp; <img width="2634" height="1484" width_o="2634" height_o="1484" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a66ead4663501f9384cc51737b6667cace5bc818217bb8ada4bf31be2cb73872/Screenshot-2023-07-25-at-12.00.00.png" data-mid="186017976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a66ead4663501f9384cc51737b6667cace5bc818217bb8ada4bf31be2cb73872/Screenshot-2023-07-25-at-12.00.00.png" />Produced for: Radiolab x NPR Rough TranslationRole: Reporter Illustration by:&nbsp;Oksana Drachkovska https://katzlaszlo.me/Lunching-Work-When-Eating-at-your-Desk-is-Forbidden-NPR-Rough Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:53:57 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/Lunching-Work-When-Eating-at-your-Desk-is-Forbidden-NPR-Rough In 2021, France suspended a law that forbids eating lunch at work. NPR’s Rough Translation talk to an American teacher relieved to see it go and a French historian determined to bring it back. I was a freelance reporter, interviewing Parisians for an NPR Rough Translation story about legally legally mandated lunch breaks, in collaboration with host Gregory Warner and producer Adelina Lancianese among others.&nbsp; Re-published by NPR’s Planet Money. <img width="1052" height="1054" width_o="1052" height_o="1054" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b49e223659a4fcaddc5b3da2a3ae7a12e3052b47bfa8fa649341ebd9e5b0bad1/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-16.59.10.png" data-mid="151197805" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b49e223659a4fcaddc5b3da2a3ae7a12e3052b47bfa8fa649341ebd9e5b0bad1/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-16.59.10.png" />Produced for: NPR Rough TranslationRole: Reporter Illustration by: Sara Gonzales https://katzlaszlo.me/MOHAMED-The-Europeans-April-2022 Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:35:43 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/MOHAMED-The-Europeans-April-2022 A story about Mohamed, living in limbo while trapped in a labyrinth of bureaucracy. Mohamed wants to live in Amsterdam, and he does. But the reminders that he is undocumented are constant. This is the fourth episode in This is What A Generation Sounds Like, a series of participative audio portraits for The Europeans podcast. Funded by Allianz Kultuurstiftung. <img width="1075" height="1076" width_o="1075" height_o="1076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2c6e328109fe21350e9ee22eb5ac4b5a61bc6e5339ed0a201fcea452e70cdfc/PHOTO-2022-04-26-15-58-08.jpg" data-mid="151197130" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2c6e328109fe21350e9ee22eb5ac4b5a61bc6e5339ed0a201fcea452e70cdfc/PHOTO-2022-04-26-15-58-08.jpg" /> Produced for: The Europeans Podcast x Are We EuropeFunded by: Allianz KultuurstiftungPress: Financial Times ; Art TribuneRole: Producer &amp; Sound Designer https://katzlaszlo.me/SARA-NPR-Rough-Translation-x-The-Europeans-x-Are-We-Europe-December Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:36:02 +0000 Katz Laszlo https://katzlaszlo.me/SARA-NPR-Rough-Translation-x-The-Europeans-x-Are-We-Europe-December A story that spans three generations of women: Sara, her mother, and her grandmother. In their collective lifetimes, Albania entered a communist dictatorship; the regime fell; and then there was a transition. And through it all, there was a dish: Trahana. Part of the series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent.I also co-produced a version of this story for NPR’s Rough Translation, in collaboration with Gregory Warner and Adelina Lancianese.&nbsp; Produced for: The Europeans Podcast x Are We EuropeFunded by: Allianz KultuurstiftungPress: Financial Times ; Art Tribune ; CBC’s Podcast Playlist ; Spotify’s Top 10 podcasts December 2021Role: Producer, Mentor &amp; Sound Designer <img width="1085" height="1093" width_o="1085" height_o="1093" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e49143f5439b9ec7aabe2f09f8ff627dbfa946be8748ee2b85334b8fba59fc6/SARA-tiwagsl-visual.jpeg" data-mid="137844924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e49143f5439b9ec7aabe2f09f8ff627dbfa946be8748ee2b85334b8fba59fc6/SARA-tiwagsl-visual.jpeg" /> <img width="2634" height="1486" width_o="2634" height_o="1486" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3840e64d3af01194d0af5e937c8c9d101a2e4e543ca0943f975bb69fa1ee27ec/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-11.54.02-PM.png" data-mid="137846019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3840e64d3af01194d0af5e937c8c9d101a2e4e543ca0943f975bb69fa1ee27ec/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-11.54.02-PM.png" /> Rose Wong&nbsp;