PRISTINA, 03.02.2021 – The Association of Journalists of Kosovo – AJK, in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute – NDI, has held an online workshop, “Journalists and Information Integrity: How to combat disinformation during the electoral process?”, supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Kosovo.
Over 30 central and local media journalists were trained by Thomson Reuters Foundation’s journalism trainer and consul, Rex Merrifield, and NDI Senior Advisor on Elections and Political Processes, Julia Brothers.
The opening of this workshop was made by Ambassador Nancy Soderberg – Senior Resident Director of NDI in Kosovo, who expressed her happiness for the start of cooperation with the Association of Journalists of Kosovo.
“We are honored to be holding this workshop with the Association of Journalists of Kosovo. Kosovo’s democracy depends on the integrity of information, a critical factor in the ability of citizens to discuss policy ideas and public affairs in an accurate manner, and to seek accountability from the government based on accurate information”.
Through a discussion with journalists, led by Gentiana Begolli Pustina, chairwoman of the AJK board, the aim was to expand knowledge about information dissemination disorders as well as best practices to combat these phenomena.
Speakers and participants in this discussion assessed that Kosovo needs a joint effort to prevent misinformation, misinformation and their degrading impact on Kosovo’s democratic discourse.
Also, during this workshop before our fellow journalists were presented the main findings from the monitoring of online and social media conducted by NDI in the period March 2020 – November 2020.
