From my quarantine room in one of the capital city’s hotels in Tunis, I sat facing my computer’s camera to participate in an online workshop for Tunisian and Libyan female journalists in the framework of the “Gender and Media Forum on…

Fake news are dangerous. They can threaten social stability and even endanger human lives. This was one of the main topics that a group of journalists from all over Libya discussed during a 10-day-training on the “Basics of Fact Checking”…

On International Day of Democracy, the EU reaffirms its willingness to take a leadership role on democracy, working ever harder in supporting those who defend it, build it and hold decision makers accountable in these difficult times The…

Validity, trustworthiness and credibility In October 2019, Deutsche Welle Akademie Project funded by the European Union ”Media in Libya – Stability Through Reconciliation“ started an ambitious program to help Libyan journalists become…

Boundaries! Limits! Borders! On the last day of the documentary film training program carried out within Deutsche Welle Akademie Project funded by the European Union ”Media in Libya – Stability Through Reconciliation“, the time had finally…

Documentary films and reconciliation in Libya The selected participants of the 3rd part of the documentary film workshop, which the Deutsche Welle Akademie held in Tunis as part of its project funded by the European Union " Media in…

Documentary films and reconciliation in Libya What will be one of the lasting memories of the first documentary film workshop that Deutsche Welle Akademie conducted in Tunis as part of its "Media in Libya - Stability through…

As their country is being ravaged by war and division, a group of 16 ambitious Libyan journalists defied the odds by uniting behind the main principle of journalism, uncovering the facts. A week-long training session was conducted in…

Libyan CSOs tell powerful messages Sometimes, a workshop develops into something more than acquiring or practicing skills and allows for new and valuable insights: "It was the first time that the CSO's of Libya had the possibility to…

Another step toward developing Libyan Media capacities “This training further enhanced my ability to select the themes and topics in a more accurate manner, by choosing a specific angle and identifying the appropriate axes accordingly,…

The media professionals were trained over three days on conducting interviews and standing in front of the camera. "I am very pleased to meet with my colleagues from across Libya. Now we can work together to develop the media in Libya. We…

“It is a great opportunity for me, as a media practitioner, to acquire these new skills and knowledge of the role of media during crises, and understanding and taking into consideration women’s cultural backgrounds in feminist causes. I…

“I am taking home jewels of information” proclaimed Suleiman Ben Ramdan. His heartfelt statement revealed much about this unique training on Journalism Basics and Mobile Journalism organised by the DW Academy's Media in Libya programme. It…

Never Fear a Camera! This is the basic lesson a group of spokespeople from Libyan NGOs learnt during a recent three-day workshop. A few rules and a lot of practice was what this DWA training had to offer. And the results were remarkable. „I…

They say that the first thing, which dies in a war, is the truth. In the for seven years on-going conflict in Libya fake news and hate speech have spread on the internet and on social media on a daily basis. The impact is…

Supporting media trainings inside Libya is one of the most important goals of DW Akademie’s Media in Libya-project . Therefore, seven media professionals from all over Libya met in Tunis for a three day refresh course Train the Trainers.…

DW Akademie, in the context of its project "Media in Libya - Stability through Reconciliation”, coordinated a meeting with the Libyan Cloud News Agency (LCNA) that brought together experts, advisors and media office directors representing…

Today the Delegation of the European Union, Deutsche Welle Akademie and Libyan officials launched a new project aiming to support Libyan people’s right to access independent and accurate information through free and independent media,…

A big step from training to a real assignment: Trainers of the DWA-EU program “Media in Libya – Stability through Reconciliation” taught the basics of blogging, news reporting, visual language and ethics in journalism to Tunisian journalism…

The local election cycle in Libya started in Zawiyah on May 12. It was peaceful but the turnout was low. The next call to vote will be just after Ramadan in Bani Walid and almost 100 other municipalities. Some of them never had a council…