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✨ How do we build trust and support among our audiences - and sustain it? How can we diversify revenue streams without compromising editorial independence? How can democratic decision-making be maintained as a media organization grows and needs to move faster? 🌎 At the 14th edition of #FestivalGabo, the most important gathering of journalists in Latin America, DW Akademie created spaces for reflection and discussion on the viability of journalism today. Journalists, founders of independent and community media outlets and media practitioners from across the region, including Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia and Argentina, explored independent journalism approaches. Particular attention was given to media cooperatives. 👉 Find 10 key takeaways from the discussions how media cooperatives help media outlets thrive in our listicle: https://lnkd.in/e2a9zyrS Gemma Terés Arilla taz panterstiftung Ernesto Lamas El Cuarto Mosquetero Michelle Nogales Cardozo Fundación Muy Waso la diaria

🚀 Looking for training opportunities, partnerships, funding or media development projects? ✨ We currently have openings in Syria, Cambodia, Tanzania and the Western Balkans, among others. 📓 Don't miss your chance to apply. And while you are there, bookmark our opportunities page! It's where we regularly publish calls for applications, proposals, research grants, conferences, training programs and consultancy opportunities from around the world. 👉 Explore here: https://lnkd.in/e_tpiVSu

DW Akademie is looking for experienced consultants for a training in #Tanzania. The training will be on Digital Safety & AI Resilience for Tanzanian radio stations and media houses. We are seeking experts with experience in: ✅ Digital safety & cybersecurity ✅ Media development & newsrooms ✅ Organizational digital resilience ✅ Responsible AI use and AI governance Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Training dates: September 28 - October 2, 2026 Read the terms of reference and apply here by September 7: https://lnkd.in/eXvjAaPk

👋 Meet Isidora Mitri, a freelance journalist, film critic and producer at the Photography Development Centre in Serbia. 📷 She reports on visual culture, photography, visual media ethics and visual media literacy, developing and coordinating cultural and media projects that explore the impact of images on society, strengthen critical engagement with visual content, promote visual arts and support audience development. 🗣️ She is also part of our Young Media Makers fellowship in the Balkans: https://lnkd.in/d5ST2Bup

Want to create your own narrative podcast but don't know where to start?    Together with Radio Workshop, we're launching our new video tutorial series Audio Storytelling, Step by Step that takes you through the process of producing compelling audio stories.    Follow the story of young people navigating Zambia's copper boom and learn, through a real-world example, how to develop your own narrative podcast.   Episode 1: How to Make a Narrative Podcast  Discover why audio storytelling matters and learn the five essential building blocks you need before turning an idea into a story. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/em5twMB8   Learn more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/eQJ4rdSX Congrats to hosts Naomi Grewan and Dhashen Moodley, along with Mike Rahfaldt, Kerry Donahue, Kamvelihle Stemela, Barbara Gruber and Makhulu.

Blending old and new ways of dialogue For our dialogue dossier, Theo Dolan, Senior Advisor for Information Disorder at BBC Media Action, explores how combining traditional media formats with emerging deliberative technologies can create new opportunities for dialogue, trust-building and civic participation. Drawing on experiences from radio dramas, TV programs and community dialogue initiatives, the article is on how media can bring diverse voices into public conversations and encourage meaningful engagement both online and offline. Dolan also looks at the growing potential of deliberative technology platforms, which use structured, moderated discussions to help people identify common ground, even across deep social and political divides. Learn more: ⤵️  https://lnkd.in/ekhyeRkA

🎉 It’s a wrap in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire! Our project "Strengthening resilient information ecosystems in West Africa" has reached another milestone: our champions in the fight against disinformation officially finalized their DW Akademie fellowships. Our project community recently united showcasing some of its best-practice cases from the numerous trainings and consultations in the past years. German Ambassador Matthias Veltin joined the celebration at the Maison de la Press in Abidjan. Stay tuned for more as we continue our endeavors in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and the Sahel region, with support from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and funded by Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) and the European Union (EU). 📸 (c) Juste Nzima/GIZ

What skill do you think people need most in the age of AI? AI hasn't changed the goal of media literacy, but it has changed the playing field. When content can be generated instantly and recommendation systems influence what we see, understanding how information reaches us becomes just as important as evaluating the information itself. One question increasingly matters: 👉"What system produced this, and why?" Key insights from DW Akademie's teaching resource by Roslyn K Moore and Joost van de Port on AI and media literacy: https://lnkd.in/dp9H2CFD

After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians will not only have to rebuild their homes, but also their institutions—a historic opportunity for democratic structures and for the country’s media sector. But the media still face tremendous challenges in a volatile environment. We're seeking to contract an organization or expert team to deliver research and monitoring on disinformation and hate-speech against Syrian media outlets, journalists and fact-checkers. The project "Fill the Space: Ensuring information supply and media trust for stabilisation in Syria" is funded by the European Union and implemented by DW Akademie, in partnership with Fatabyyano. The project seeks to strengthen local media capacities, enhance fact-checking practices, and promote awareness-raising initiatives to combat disinformation in Syria. Extended deadline to apply: August 27 More info: https://lnkd.in/d_mgmdsz

We are looking for Ukrainian youth between 12- and 16-years-old living in Berlin who are ready to roast memes, expose fake news, decode TikTok trends and turn the internet’s biggest nonsense into stand-up gold. 🎤 Our MIL stand-up comedy program is more than a MIL course — it’s a chance to find your voice, own the stage, sharpen your media radar and make people laugh while making them think. 🧠 Participants learn how to: Build jokes and write their own stand-up 🎭 Speak with confidence and master improvisation 📣 Spot fakes, manipulation, clickbait and digital noise 💡 Understand memes, trends, algorithms and social media 📱 Create and perform their own stand-up monologue🔥 Please follow the link for more info and registration: https://lnkd.in/eANimsax