Media literacy and fact-checking
Media literacy and fact-checking.
Seven media outlets united in the fight against disinformation
Seven newsrooms in Kyrgyzstan have united to combat fakes and manipulation and then created a new Checkit Media platform. This was made possible by the support of the Media-K...
Databases and a guide for finding datasets have been created to help journalists In Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
A new study commissioned by Internews maps out the open data infrastructure in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The mapping provides insight into the available open data resources on socio-economic issues...
The akyn improvisers participated in intensive media literacy training
Internews in KR successfully completed an intensive workshop on media literacy and promotion of the creative work through social media for a group of akyns, improvisational poets, who had...
Petition of the Mediamost media community to journalists from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
A great deal of material on the border conflict is now being published. It is important to remember that media is one of the most powerful tools...
Media Policy Institute: The Political Hostility Amendment is dangerous and unconstitutional.
The Media Policy Institute has issued an opinion on legislative amendments that introduce the notion of political hostility. MPI lawyers have made a thorough legal analysis of the proposed...
Hate speech in the Election Discourse of Kyrgyzstan. Issue 3
This issue №3 is the result of ongoing multilingual media monitoring and analysis of online content in selected online publications and social networks regarding hate speech (hatred) in the...
Sooronbai Jeenbekov withdraws material claims to Kabai Karabekov
The President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov the day before withdrew his material claims to the journalist Kabai Karabekov. The bailiff of the service of bailiffs for the Sverdlovsk district of Bishkek city...
“Fergana” website is blocked by the court’s decision
On 9 June, the October District Court of Bishkek declared the article of the journalist Ulugbek Babakulov to be “extremist”. Earlier, the Attorney General’s Office of Kyrgyz Republic...
How journalists should report on elections
Internews in Kyrgyzstan in cooperation with The Central Electoral Commission and IFES with the assistance of USAID organized a two-day seminar for journalists “The method of reporting on the...
Daniil Kislov: “In Central Asia, There Is No Demand For Quality News And Professional Journalism”
Today the Chief Editor of the news agency “Ferghana.Ru” Daniil Kislov, within the framework of the meeting-seminar FIDH with human rights activists of Kyrgyzstan, took the floor regarding “Freedom...