PRISTINA, 08.12.2020 – The Association of Journalists of Kosovo – AJK, supported by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, yesterday on December 7th held the workshop “Hate speech and hate crimes in the media during reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The main speakers included Dren Gërguri (lecturer in the Department of Journalism at UP), Jehona Zhitia (journalist at Radio Television of Kosovo), Arbreshë Uka (journalist at Klan Kosova) and Ibelinda Halili (psychologist). The other participants were journalists from various media, as well as students of the Department of Journalism at the University of Pristina.
The spread of hate speech in the media when reporting on the COVID 19 pandemic, journalistic reporting of hate speech, and the impact of hate speech on the mental state of journalists and ways to deal with it, has been discussed on this workshop.
Due to the epidemiological situation, the workshop was held online on the “Zoom” platform.