ICFJ-Facebook Training & Reporting Grants Program: Reporting on Refugee Communities Amidst a Pandemic
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is pleased to partner with Facebook Journalism Project on a training program that allows journalists across the Middle East and North Africa to produce high-quality and engaging stories that shine a light on life in refugee camps at this time of the coronavirus pandemic. The program equips journalists with the skills, resources, and technical support needed to produce compelling reports that surface underreported stories from refugee camps across countries with large refugee communities such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq. With an emphasis on the direct and indirect consequences of COVID-19 on an already struggling community. The goal is to ensure that this vulnerable community is not forgotten during the global pandemic.
Read more: https://www.icfj.org/our-work/icfj-facebook-training-reporting-grants-program-reporting-refugee-communities-amidst?fbclid=IwAR1xTF0gUI2CwUgqZYw0_u-twABsoWP3UmA9ItKxzLTiwcCiz0SHdEE05ok#.Xr_GPZvDPPs.facebook
Humanitarians on TikTok
5 Lessons on Combatting Misinformation During COVID-19.
Read more: https://medium.com/@UNmigration/humanitarians-on-tiktok-246651af74d
Not Just Dance Moves: TikTok, Snapchat and other teen faves are essential spaces for social connection and self expression
TikTok isn’t only useful for practical health information—although doctors and nurses have been showing off some killer moves over the past few weeks, and reaching teenagers who might otherwise be missed by the UK government’s lacking communication strategy. It is also providing a sense of community, something that is more and more important as the possibility of lockdown looms longer, and digital spaces shift from being a secondary aspect of our social lives, to being a an essential space for maintaining social connections. For teenagers, this is particularly important.
Read more: https://www.media-diversity.org/not-just-dance-moves-tiktok-snapchat-and-other-teen-faves-are-essential-spaces-for-social-connection-and-self-expression/?fbclid=IwAR3MEiWXLHu2n8Lyj19EFtaD65cD9_PM5Yy9_6INr0rT8Y71Vp88ayYKGp0
When hip-hop saves lives: UNESCO, i4Policy, UNHCR join forces in #DontGoViral campaign to fight infodemic around COVID-19
“The success of the DontGoViral campaign underlines the resilience and creativity of women and men on the African Continent to harness the power of cultural diversity to effectively combat the infodemic that is proving to be just as viral as the pandemic itself. Their contributions highlight the fact that cultural players are a much-needed part of the solution,” said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
Read more here: https://en.unesco.org/news/when-hip-hop-saves-lives-unesco-i4policy-unhcr-join-forces-dontgoviral-campaign-fight-infodemic?fbclid=IwAR04T46gUMwV4bRx6TXXJwff_ZlPa8cvgS-a2UQFNLnbbb7vpt8C8pM0AnM
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