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Application Call: M100 Young European Journalists Workshop 2022

Journalistic impartiality in times of war – Dealing with Fake News and Disinformation

10 – 15 September 2022, Berlin & Potsdam
(Arrival 9 September, departure 16 September)

Fake news and disinformation have an impact on our society, our politics, our economy, on democracy, freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and on our security.

Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which was prepared long in advance by the Russian side through targeted false information which also plays a major role in the war, shows this in a particularly drastic way. Here, parallel to the military war with all its suffering and horror, a bitter information war is also being waged, a war for images, emotions, interpretive sovereignty and truth.

It makes clear how important it is to recognise, identify and combat fake news. How important and difficult thorough research is for journalists and media to be able to distinguish facts from fakes from the endless stream of information in the digital age.

read more Application Call: M100 Young European Journalists Workshop 2022

Our Alumni Network: Konstantinos Koulocheris, Greece

22 June 2022. Konstantinos Koulocheris works as a data analyst in London.

“The Russian invasion in the Ukraine highlights the necessity for the EU to carefully pick its partners and prevent striking any kind of trade deals with regimes that are evidently a threat to its borders. Following evidence of aggressive behavior since 2014 in the Crimean Peninsula, the fuel and energy dependence of a whole continent to a regime that invades foreign territories proved to be a major mistake with catastrophic consequences for European people”, he writes.

Konstantinos participated at the M100YEJ in 2013, which influenced him to focus on media and politics in a professional path and where he met his wife, Anna. More about Konstantinos here.

“We need visibility on an international level”

15 June 2022. Olesia Tytarenko, deputy editor-in-chief of the National Public Broadcasting Corporation of Ukraine (Suspilne), supports the statement of her colleague Olga Konsevych:

“We as a public broadcaster had it a little easier than the private media. But we also need visibility on an international level, because as you can see, attention and also support is decreasing. And maybe closer international cooperation between journalists, editors and civil society representatives can have a positive effect.

What we are also worried about are the narratives that have appeared recently in western media. Some journalists and public figures were trying to convey an idea that to stop the war, Ukraine has to cede its territory. Our goal as journalists is to prove them wrong. And we would also need Western society’s help in it.”