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With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, social messaging services like Telegram became many people’s main source for news. Yet these spaces have become rife with disinformation. #TacklingDisinformation You can watch the full video with Anna Chaika and check out our disinformation learning guide here: https://p.dw.com/p/4edQL 

Almost 16 million people in Asia are #refugees or #migrants. However, it’s often difficult to share information, and journalistm can be biased, leading to hostility toward the displaced.   Are you a media professional, content creator or expert from Asia specializing in #displacement and #migration?   Then come and explore how media and other communicators report on forced migration in the region. DW Akademie will hold an in-person conference this November in Thailand.   📆 October 31 – November 3, 2024 🌏 Chiang Mai, Thailand   Check out our call and submit your idea by August 18, 2024: https://p.dw.com/p/4idKU UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency #accesstoinformation #freedomofexpression #representationmatters

This afternoon, don't miss our discussion on how journalists can investigate socio-environmental conflict without harming the people involved. (in Spanish) The guests are Susana Morán of the Fundación Periodistas Sin Cadenas, Renzo Anselmo of Servindi, and América Armenta of the Quinto Elemento Lab. https://lnkd.in/gJdZf3Xr

#TacklingDisinformation involves seeing disinformation as more than just the piece of news itself, but within the wider system in which it occurs, says Alicia Wanless of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Check out the full video in our disinformation learning guide: https://p.dw.com/p/4enIW #disinformation #research

🌎 Next week, our partner SembraMedia will launch the global version of their #ProjectOasis, an investigation of the independent digital media ecosystem, now also in Europe, United States, Canada, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean. The event will take place in Buenos Aires (read below to register), and will also be streamed to their YouTube channel:   ▶️ https://lnkd.in/egirfGUh

Attention journalists and media workers in Georgia: Together with the Global Initiative on Psychiatry in Tbilisi (Human Rights in Mental Health-FGIP), we're setting up a #mentalhealth initiative for media professionals. This initiative is part of the Quality Media and Conscious Media Consumption for Resilient Society (ConMeCo) project implemented by DW Akademie in cooperation with the მედიის განვითარების ფონდი | Media Development Foundation (MDF) and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) funded by the European Union and co-funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Viral Bomb! This innovative #medialiteracy board game continues its route through Bolivia to promote MIL in a playful way. The Muy Waso team was recently playing and learning in Cochabamba. Would you like to play? https://lnkd.in/epWEMCMr

"Podcasting is amplifying the voices of young people." DW Akademie's podcast training module for young people, recently launched in Namibia, builds skills around #medialiteracy and teaches young people how to create #podcasts. The participants, between the ages of 20 and 35, were members of a DW Akademie partner, the MiLLi* Network, which is a media and information literacy initiative launched in Namibia in 2015. Goethe-Institut Namibia employees and students joined the workshop, too. Sylvia Braesel, a MIL expert and learning designer who has worked a lot with youth, and Julia Minner, a DW Akademie PodcasTraining trainer, developed the youth workshop. https://p.dw.com/p/4eqP2

When working toward #sustainability or #viability of a media outlet, don't exclusively focus on money!     "At the end of the day, viability also means being able to reach the audiences that we want, the numbers that we want," said Zenzele Ndebele, founder and director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology on our #surviveandthrive podcast.   In other words: Find out your audience's wants and needs. What information is crucial for their lives? What sparks their curiosity?   Tune in to learn more from Ndebele and CITE, a media outlet focusing on ordinary and marginalized people in Zimbabwe - while maintaining an eye on global trends in tech: https://lnkd.in/eiYsDrEm