Disinfo Academy For HE Students
Unveiling the art of fact-checking
Fake News Challenge – International Edition
Runner-up and second place
Team DiMe from Turkey:
İnci Dilara Gazioğlu and Melis Çağla Kıroğlu
More information about the team - coming soon!
Third place
Team Egg-cellent from Romania:
Jasmine Pîrvu, Maria-Cătălina Mendea and Diana Elena Savin
More information about the team - coming soon!
Flavia Durach, PhD
Jury Members
Raluca Silvia Ciochina holds a PhD in communication sciences and is a specialist in online communication. She is actively involved in researching topics such as: crowdsourcing, communication in social media, digital intelligence, entrepreneurship and human resources in the digital era, information and communication technologies and online consumer behaviours. She currently teaches courses on Digital Marketing, E-business and online promotion strategies, Public Relations in the online environment, and Organizational Communication at the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, within the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania.
Georgy Marchev is the founder and video producer at Story Films Bulgaria, with experience in creating internet video stories and documentaries since 2012. Georgy served as a journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Factcheck.bg from 2021 to 2024, which is the only platform in Bulgaria dedicated solely to fact-checking. He is a media and digital literacy trainer at the Media Literacy Coalition since 2022. Georgy has co-authored the Fact-checking Guide for Factcheck.bg in consultation with the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, along with being a main trainer in two national factchecking academies of Factcheck.bg for 2023. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism (2008-2012) and a master's degree in creative production (2012-2013) from the University of National and World Economy - Sofia.
Lemi Baruh (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, 2007) is Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts, College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University in Turkey. Lemi Baruh’s research interests include new media technologies, surveillance, privacy—especially pertaining to attitudes about privacy—and culture of voyeurism. He is is an associate editor of International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies.
Lejla Sinanović has been Head of the Public Relations Office at the University of Sarajevo – School of Economics and Business since 2010. She obtained the academic title of Master at the University of Sarajevo – School of Economics and Business in 2011 in the field of Quality Control, and she also completed the postgraduate program in the field of Human Resource Management, where only the defense of the final thesis remained until obtaining a diploma in this field. Over the past 14 years, as the of the Public Relations Office at the School of Economics and Business Sarajevo, she has carried out numerous activities, such as organizing and leading various types of events, managing social media accounts, preparing press releases, media conferences, interviews, etc.
WHO
8 teams of 2-3 students each - fake news detectives
2 teams per country: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
WHAT
You will do a pilot-test of a new and improved fact-checking methodology proposed in the project “Disinfo Academy”.
More precisely: Find a claim verified by a fact-checking organization, analyze it critically, and re-write the respective piece of fact-checking based on the suggested methodology. Don’t worry, you will have a practical Handbook to guide you. You will tailor the content for dissemination in digital environment and make it interesting for young audiences.
Please note that the materials & your presentation during the live event will be delivered in English.
Put your fact-check into one of the following digital formats:
• Infographic
• Brochure/ leaflet
• Short animation
• Short video
You will present your solution during a live online event, and a jury of international experts will decide the winners. We have cool prizes for the best teams!
WHEN
April 29 - May 12, 2024 – Registration form here
May 13, 2024 - Registered teams receive a detailed competition brief and The fact checker’s guide to debunking disinformation narratives
May 22, 2024 - All candidate teams submit their work for the preselection
May 23-24, 2024 - National preselection (based on your submitted work). Two teams per country will enter the live event.
May 27, 2024 - Pre-selection results are announced
May 28, 2024 - 3 PM EEST: Fake News Challenge live online event
Disinfo Academy | 2022-1-BG01-KA220-HED-000085747
Start date: 01.09.2022 | End date: 30.04.2025
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