M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and M100 Media Award 2023

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Annual Press Freedom Review 2021 of RSF

6 January 2022. On 14 December, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) presented its annual Press Freedom Review 2021.

“The number of journalists arbitrarily imprisoned has never been as high as this year,” says RSF Germany-Executive Director Christian Mihr. Worldwide, 488 media workers are imprisoned for their work, 212 of them in China, Myanmar and Belarus. 65 are currently considered kidnapped. But there is also “good news”: With 46, the number of media workers killed is the lowest in almost 20 years.

Read the full report here.

Public Media and Democracy in turbulent Times – Lessons from Lithuania

3 January 2022. A fragmented media landscape, political pressure, growing anti-media sentiment and attacks on journalists are the new realities in which public service media (PSM) must operate. How can public service media respond to this rapidly changing media landscape, and how can they strengthen and deepen solidarity and build trust in our increasingly divided society? In a recent text, Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė, Director General of the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT since 2018, reflects on the lessons that Lithuania’s public media have learned.

The manipulation of public opinion is the main catalyst for the division and polarisation of society, she said. To counteract this and strengthen trust in the media, public broadcasters must continue to play a key role in exposing disinformation and fake news. They need to expose fakes, including the sources, interests and techniques behind them, and show how the public space is abused and what digital trolls and political actors are doing there.

You can read her entire commentary here.

Our Alumni Network: Victoria Graul and Digga Fake

17 December 2021. Victoria is a journalist and founder and host of the podcast “Digga Fake – Fake News & Fact-Checking“, in which she talks about – as the name suggests – fake news, disinformation and media literacy in a lively, humorous and well-informed way. With her German-language podcast, to which she regularly invites experts, Victoria wants to help keep track of the flood of information and distinguish real from fake contributions.

Victoria participated in the M100 YEJ in 2009, which was about “Migration and the Media”. She successfully completed her Master’s degree in European Integration at Chemnitz University of Technology and now lives in Hanover. More about Victoria here.

Every month, we introduce you to a member of our alumni group. They come from all parts of Europe, are freelance reporters, editors, start-up founders, editors-in-chief, podcasters, academics or students and are interested in numerous topics. The aim of the group is to actively exchange ideas on topics such as democracy, freedom of the press and journalism, climate change, factchecking, data, education and much more, to start projects together and to hold seminars and intergenerational debates with other partners.