Giorgos Christides and Katy Fallon are our 2023 Climate Disinformation Media Fellows! They will pursue on-the-ground reporting on climate disinformation case studies. Their articles will be published as part of a web dossier on battling climate disinformation.
Our upcoming Climate Disinformation Dossier, which the Fellowship is part of, will deal with disinformation campaigns meant to thwart climate action, as well as with strategies to counter this disinformation. The fellowship is meant to add context and stories to the dossier- Our fellows will travel to one or more communities of their choice and report on the ground on the climate disinformation campaigns waged here. Possible questions are how successful these climate-related disinformation campaigns are, what strategies are employed to spread it, whether this disinformation originates from within communities or is spread through astroturfing from the outside, the role of social media and an increasingly polarized media environment, and what efforts are undertaken to counter these disinformation campaigns.
Our 2023 Climate Disinformation Media Fellows are:
Giorgos Christides is a Greece-based journalist. He has been reporting on political, economic and social issues for a number of international outlets, including Der Spiegel and the BBC, for over a decade. He has received multiple journalism awards, most recently for investigative projects focusing on migration. Follow him on X.
Katy Fallon is an Athens-based journalist with a specific focus on borders and how they impact people and has been involved in multiple investigations documenting human rights abuses at Europe's borders. She has been shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award and contributes regularly to the Guardian and Al Jazeera English. Follow her on X.
They both were recently awarded the 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.
Stay tuned for the launch of our Climate Disinformation Dossier, in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC office.
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