Module 2 - Training for journalists ahead of the European Parliament elections - 18 March 2024, 15:30-17:00 CET
The first part of the training module will focus on ‘The Challenge of EP news coverage’, identifying patterns and challenges for journalists in covering the European Parliament elections and how to mitigate such challenges. The training will present differences in approach to covering EP elections in different countries and discuss possible barriers, including economic, political and within news organizations.
Building on the work of the EDMO Task Force on the 2024 EP elections set up to monitor and counter attempts to condition and undermine public confidence in the democratic process, the second part of the training module will present useful information and monitoring tools already made available by EDMO. In particular, the training will present EDMO publications that can be useful for monitoring disinformation ahead of the EU elections, namely the EDMO monthly briefs, the EDMO Task Force reports and EDMO investigations.
Target audience: This training module is aimed at journalists, but other stakeholders working in the counter-disinformation field are also welcome to apply.
Meet your Trainers
Claes H. de Vreese is University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society, with a special focus on media and democracy at the University of Amsterdam. He is the co-director of AlgoSoc: Public Values in the Algorithmic Society (a 10-year national research program, 2022-2032), the AI, Media & Democracy Lab (https://www.aim4dem.nl), and the Digital Democracy Centre (SDU, Denmark). He has done research on EU, media and public opinion since 1999.
Deputy director of Pagella Politica and Facta news since 2020, fact-checker since 2016 and professional journalist since 2012, I mainly deal with European and international projects involving our newspapers. In particular, I coordinate the fact-checking activities of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and the Italian Digital Media Observatory (IDMO), I am a member of the Governance Body of the European Fact-Checking Standard Network (EFCSN) and of the Taskforce of the Code of Practice on Disinformation of the European Union.
Deadline for applications
8 March 2024, 10:00 CET
Applications are now closed