Meeting agenda
The second GFMD IMPACT meeting bringing together donors, practitioners and academics, which took place on June 17th 2021, focused on disinformation.
AGENDA
Journalism support and media development in the context of mis/disinformation
Date: 17th June 2021
Time: 15:00-17:00 CET / 09:00-11:00 ET
Co-convened by
Aim
To provide donors, practitioners and academia insights and knowledge to assist the sector in better planning, designing, implementing and measuring the impact of mis/disinformation programmes by discussing:
Approaches and methodologies used in media assistance programmes to tackle mis/disinformation
What has been successful in different environments, where there are still challenges
What forms of evidence and research still need to be developed
How to better collect, share and use data and evidence from current programmes that can influence policy priorities as well as implementation strategies.
Rules
Keynote presentations and case studies presented in the main part of the meeting are on the record.
The breakout groups will take place using the Chatham House rule:
When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
The meeting will be recorded for the purposes of record-keeping and to enable accurate reporting. The video will never be shared or published.
These meetings are not for the solicitation of funding.
WELCOME (15:00-15:15)
Owais Aslam Ali, Secretary-General of Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), and the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) Steering Committee Member
Joshua Machleder, Senior Media and Internet Freedom Advisor, USAID│Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance
Addressing Mis/Disinformation in journalism support and media assistance programmes (15.15-15.35)
Tom Law, Media Policy Advisor, Global Forum for Media Development, will give a review of relevant reports, evidence and literature related to recent programmes and initiatives.
Kalina Bontcheva, a senior researcher in the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Sheffield, has prepared the following presentation from the disinformation typology of responses section of Balancing Act: Countering Digital Disinformation While Respecting Freedom of Expression (2020).
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (15:35-16:00)
The Challenges of Evaluating Countering Disinformation Programs: A Working Paper
Susan Abbott, consultant, co-chair of the Media Sector Development Working Group of The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Gaylord Family Professor of Strategic Communication, University of Oklahoma, Independent Consultant, Research, Measurement, Monitoring, and Evaluation
BREAKOUT GROUPS (16:00-16.40)
Each group was tasked with responding to the following questions:
Which responses to disinformation are effective in which circumstances? And why? Why have some responses been more effective than others?
What are your main challenges when working on responses to disinformation? How can they be overcome?
What are your recommendations for the media development and journalism support community (donors, funders, implementers, practitioners)? What should we do next? And how should we do it? Research? Evidence sharing? Data gathering?
BREAKOUT GROUP 1 - Content
Supporting journalism, counter-narratives, reporting on misinformation.
Chair: Mira Milosevic, Executive Director, Global Forum for Media Development
BREAKOUT GROUP 2 - Production processes
Newsroom and production processes to address disinformation - Fact-checking, moderation, content curation, ethical standards.
Chair: Roukaya Kasenally, CEO, African Media Initiative and Associate Professor University of Mauritius
BREAKOUT GROUP 3 - Audiences
Media and information literacy and newsroom literacy.
Chair: Snjezana Milivojevic, Ph.D.Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Recommended viewing for all breakout groups: Content, production and audiences
As this policy paper from ARIJ and this research from Media Matters for Democracy addresses the topics of all breakout groups, we recommend that all participants watch these presentations (as well as read the paper and research.)
Sonia Whitehead presents an analysis of BBC Media Action’s work responding to disinformation around COVID-19.
More resources
Literature reviewChoose your breakout group
Please fill out this single question form to indicate which group you would like to be allocated to: https://forms.gle/7zEwHVyvGG7ND7ed7
If you don’t make a selection, note that we will assign you to one of the groups.
Reporting from the groups and conclusions (16.40-17:00)
Follow-up
After the meeting, GFMD will share a report of the presentations, keynote and discussions in the breakout group. This will include proposals for future research, collaboration, learning and information sharing.
REPORT FROM OUR PREVIOUS EVENT: Theories of change and impact measurement
The first GFMD IMPACT meeting, held on March 15th 2021, focused on theories of change and impact measurement.
Theories of change & impact measurement (March '21)Last updated
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