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Maria Feck ist Fotojournalistin aus Hamburg. Sie berichtet in unserer Podcastfolge, wie sich ihre Arbeit in den letzten Jahren verändert hat, welchen Einfluss die finanziellen Einbrüche der großen deutschen Magazine auf ihre Reportagen haben und warum Stipendien in dieser Misere zwar helfen, aber nicht die Lösung sein können. Shownotes Madeline Stuart, Fashionshow von Amnesia, New York Fashion Week 2019 © Maria Feck Links Diverse Stipendien auf Journalismfund.eu. Stipendium der VG-Bildkunst Übersicht verschiedener Wettbewerbe und Stipendien auf Picter. Instagram von Maria Feck Webseite von Maria Feck In der Kategorie „Drei Frauen, die Dich inspirieren“ nannte Maria folgende Fotografinnen: Roswitha Hecke Nan Goldin Julia Sellmann Euch hat das Gespräch gefallen? Dann gebt uns doch eine positive Bewertung in Eurem Podcastplayer. Und wenn Ihr mehr großartige Fotografinnen sehen möchtet, schaut unbedingt auf der Webseite des Female Photoclubs vorbei. Sounddesign: Daniel Carlos Eisenlohr Ton: Christoph Scheidel / 79 SOUND Grafik: Mona Wingerter

Maria Feck ist Fotojournalistin aus Hamburg. Sie berichtet in unserer Podcastfolge, wie sich ihre Arbeit in den letzten Jahren verändert hat, welchen Einfluss die finanziellen Einbrüche der großen deutschen Magazine auf ihre Reportagen haben und warum Stipendien in dieser Misere zwar helfen, aber nicht die Lösung sein können. Shownotes Links Diverse Stipendien auf Journalismfund.eu. Stipendium […]

In 1994, the world's first oat milk company was born in Sweden. Three decades later, Oatly is on a high-stakes mission to defeat the dairy industry – by growing into the biggest plant-based brand the world has ever seen.  Can a start-up from Malmö save us all through capitalism? This is the first episode in a three-part series, ‘The Oatly Chronicles'. This week we're asking: just how much damage is our dairy addiction doing to the planet?  This series is funded by Journalismfund.eu and the Allianz Foundation. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at ⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠ (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by ⁠⁠leaving us a review⁠⁠ or giving us five stars on Spotify. Credits  This episode was reported, written and produced by Katz Laszlo. Editing came from Katy Lee, as well as Justine Paradis, visiting from NPR's excellent podcast, Outside/In. Editorial support came from Margot Gibbs, Dominic Kraemer and Wojciech Oleksiak, and mastering, scoring and sound design also came from Wojciech.  Artwork came from favourite illustrator RTiiiKA. Thanks for talking to us: George Monbiot, Thin Lei Win, Elsa Guadarrama, Sonalie Figueiras, Ashley Allen, and Sofia Ehlde.  Special thanks to lovely neighbours Joris Klingen and Thomas van Dijk, for letting us use their very nice studio. You can find their music under Bovenburen. Interesting resources: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impact-of-eating-meat-and-dairy/ https://drawdown.org/news/insights/the-powerful-role-of-household-actions-in-solving-climate-change https://theoutline.com/post/8384/sweden-milk-war-oatly ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠hello@europeanspodcast.com

Whilst the government's controversial illegal migration bill moves through parliament, an untraceable and ancient banking system is being used to finance people smuggling across Europe and the Channel. So how does it work? And should the authorities crack down on 'hawala'?Additional reporting by Priyanka Shankar, Andrea Giambartolemei, Andres Mourenza, Elena Ledda and Iliana Papangeli. This investigation is supported by a grant from the IJ4EU fund and by Journalismfund.eu. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes. Guest: Emma Yeomans, News Reporter, The Times.Host: Manveen Rana.Clips: 10 Downing Street, Parliament Live, Times Radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apsūdzības korupcijā, krāpšanā, dokumentu viltošanā, aresti, tiesu darbi, skandāli - tas viss raksturo saimniecisko darbību, ko gadu garumā Latvijā realizē ar čehu miljonāru Tomāšu Krseku saistītie uzņēmumi. "Olainfarm", "Repharm", "BHM Group", "Black Duck Invest", "Latvia Wind" un "Škoda Transportations" ir tikai aisberga galotne. Kopš 2020. gada Krsekam pieder divi vēja parku projekti Latvijā, no kuriem viens ir gandrīz sešreiz lielāks nekā līdz šim Latvijā lielākais izbūvētais vēja parks. Kas īsti slēpjas aiz šo uzņēmumu skandāliem un projektiem Latvijā un ko tas potenciāli var solīt mums? Kas viņš tāds ir - Tomāšs Krseks? Par svarīgāko, kas Latvijā jāzina par ietekmīgā čehu miljonāra Tomāša Krseka darījumu vēsturi, klausies Raivja Šveicara podkāstā "Čehu biznesa haizivs Latvijas ūdeņos".  Podkāsts tapis ar "Journalismfund.eu" atbalstu.

Widely used in construction for decades, the aftermath of asbestos exposure has been a death sentence for many in the United Kingdom. Written by Katharine Quarmby. Read by Richard Martin.    This article is part of a wider cross-border investigation, Asbestos: The Lethal Legacy, led by Investigative Reporting Denmark, edited by Katharine Quarmby, and made in collaboration with journalists from Knack in Belgium, Tygodnik Powszechny and Reporters' Foundation in Poland, Ostro in Croatia and Slovenia, Investigative Reporting Project Italy, De Groene Amsterdammer in The Netherlands, Grupo Merca2 in Spain, Al Jazeera in the UK and TV2 Nord in Denmark. The investigation is supported by Journalismfund.eu.  

We all send our recycling somewhere for proper handling, but the operations of one such handling center in Poland makes one ask, is it being done right, or at all?  The European Commission estimates that the illegal handling of such waste represents around 15-30% of the total EU waste trade, generating EUR 9.5 billion in annual revenues. So in part 3 of our investigative podcast series, the team dispatches Outriders journalist Eva Dunal to visit one such recycling facility in the pretty town of Zielona Góra close to the Polish-German border, and finds out just how unpopular it is with the neighbors, and especially the city council. They also speak with Jim Puckett, the 'James Bond of waste trafficking' at Basel Action Network, who reveals that much recycling is being 'laundered' via the Netherlands and shipped on to countries where such resources are often dumped, not recycled. In a three-part, “true eco-crime” series for Mongabay's podcast, our hosts trace England's – and Europe's – towering illegal waste problem: investigative environmental journalists Lucy Taylor and Dan Ashby follow this illegal 'waste trail' from their quiet English town to the nearby countryside and as far away as Poland and Malaysia. Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts, from Apple to Spotify, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to get access to our latest episodes at your fingertips. This episode is "The Wastelands" and is part three of the investigative podcast series, "Into the Wasteland," developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. Banner image: The shuttered Eurokey plant in the town of Zielona Góra. Image by Eva Dunal/Outriders. If you enjoy the Newscast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Please share your thoughts and feedback! submissions@mongabay.com.

The U.K.'s Environment Agency calls waste crime — where instead of delivering recycling or rubbish for proper disposal, companies simply dump it in the countryside — “the new narcotics” because it's so easy to make money illegally. It's estimated that one in every five U.K. waste companies operates in this manner ('fly-tipping'), and the government seems powerless to stop it: it's so easy to be registered as one of the government's recommended waste haulers that even a dog can do it — and at least one has, as this episode shares. In part 2 of our new investigative podcast series, the team also speaks with a lawyer who describes her year-long campaign to get the government to deal with a single illegal dump site, but they fail to act before it catches fire, in an emblematic 'trash fire' for this whole issue. They also speak with a former official at Interpol who shares that his agency also lacks the resources to tackle the problem. In a three-part, “true eco-crime” series for Mongabay's podcast, our hosts trace England's towering illegal waste problem: investigative environmental journalists Lucy Taylor and Dan Ashby follow this illegal 'waste trail' from their quiet English town to the nearby countryside and as far away as Poland. Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts, from Apple to Spotify, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to get access to our latest episodes at your fingertips. This episode is "The Jungle" and is part two of the podcast series, "Into the Wasteland," developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. Banner image: The U.K.'s recyclables, plastic packaging and waste soils the countryside across the country and as far away as Turkey (pictured). Image courtesy of Caner Ozkan via Greenpeace Media Library. If you enjoy the Newscast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Please share your thoughts and feedback! submissions@mongabay.com.

The British countryside is increasingly under siege from a scourge of illegal waste dumping – polluting both water and air – but one man is bravely taking the criminals on, staking out their sites with night vision goggles, drones and more. In a three-part, 'true eco-crime' podcast series for the Mongabay Newscast, investigative environmental journalists Lucy Taylor and Dan Ashby trace this illegal 'waste trail' from their quiet English town to the nearby countryside, and as far away as Poland. Threatened, chased, but undeterred, waste investigator Martin Montague has also established a website, Clearwaste, to document incidents of 'fly-tipping' as the practice is known, and people use it daily to report tens of thousands of incidents all over the country, where illegal landfills are also on the rise. Episodes two and three will air in the coming weeks and take the issue to a wider European scope, discussing it with Interpol and visiting a destination for U.K. waste in Poland. Banner image: A mountain of UK plastic waste near Wespack Recycling Factory in Malaysia, via Greenpeace Media Library. Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts, from Apple to Spotify, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to get access to our latest episodes at your fingertips. This episode is "The Waste Mountain" and is part one of the podcast series, "Into the Wasteland," developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. If you enjoy the Newscast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Please share your thoughts and feedback! submissions@mongabay.com.

Europos Sąjunga remia dviračių infrastruktūrą šalyse narėse ir palieka laisvę skirstyti lėšas. Pasak Europos Komisijos, 2014-2020 metais tam skirta apie 2 mlrd. eurų. Bet tarptautinis žurnalistinis tyrimas parodė, kad projektų vykdytojai tiesia takus, kurie kelia konfliktus tarp pėsčiųjų, dviratininkų ir tų, kuriems rūpi gamta.Būta atvejų, kai naujoji infrastruktūra iš viso netinkama naudoti. Nepaisant skirtumų tarp šalių, ryškėja tendencija, kad vietos savivalda dviračių dažnai nelaiko alternatyva automobiliams. Panašu, kad savivaldybės daro viską, kad nesukeltų nepatogumo vairuotojams, o į dviratininkų patiriamus nepatogumus gilinasi retai.Kaip pasiekti, kad gražūs žodžiai virstų patogiais takais ir dviračiai tikrai taptų naudojama susisiekimo ir taršos problemų sprendimo priemone?Žurnalistinis tyrimas Lietuvoje, Čekijoje, Maltoje ir Rumunijoje atliktas Journalismfund.eu fondo lėšomis.Autorė Daiva RepečkaitėRedaktorė Vaida Pilibaitytė

En Russie, depuis le déclenchement de l'invasion en Ukraine, le 24 février 2022, la censure règne. Des lois interdisent de prononcer le mot « guerre », de « discréditer » l'armée russe. L'un après l'autre, les derniers médias indépendants du pays ont été forcés de fermer. Et dans le même temps, le journalisme russe n'a peut-être jamais été aussi dynamique, au point de parler d'un certain âge d'or du journalisme indépendant. Léo Vidal-Giraud. En Turquie, le Parlement débat d'une loi sur « les médias internet et les réseaux sociaux » qui prévoit de punir jusqu'à quatre ans et demi de prison toute personne diffusant des « informations mensongères ». Les Organisations de défense de la liberté de la presse y voient un nouvel instrument pour museler la presse indépendante à un an des élections. Et l'inquiétude monte dans les rédactions concernées, Anne Andlauer.   Serbie : la lutte pour les droits des femmes continue En Serbie, la difficile lutte des femmes contre un sexisme banalisé jusqu'au sommet de l'État. Violences sexuelles, conservatisme, patriarcat, malgré les difficultés, les féministes refusent de baisser les bras. Un reportage de Simon Rico, réalisé avec le soutien du JournalismFund.eu   La sélection féminine de foot espagnole obtient un accord historique sur l'égalité salariale Après des mois de négociations, la sélection féminine de foot a obtenu un accord qui entrera en vigueur sur les 5 prochaines saisons. L'Espagne rejoint des pays comme le Brésil, l'Angleterre, les États-Unis, la Norvège et le Danemark qui ont déjà conclu des accords similaires : joueuses et joueurs de l'équipe nationale auront les mêmes primes et des conditions de travail équivalentes. Les précisions d'Elise Gazengel. L'Œil européen de Franceline Beretti : droits des femmes.

Menacé aux États-Unis, le droit à l'avortement reste un droit fragile pour les femmes. En Europe, la question divise, et ces divisions se constatent très régulièrement au sein du Parlement européen pour les pays membres de l'UE.   En Pologne, depuis le durcissement de la loi sur l'interruption volontaire de grossesse en octobre 2020, dans un pays où celle-ci était déjà très sévère, avorter est devenu presque impossible. Une situation à laquelle sont confrontées aussi les réfugiées ukrainiennes. Certaines sont tombées enceintes après avoir été violées par des soldats russes en Ukraine. À Varsovie, les précisions de notre correspondante Sarah Bakaloglou.   En Croatie, la loi garantissant l'accès à l'avortement date de l'époque socialiste yougoslave, mais depuis l'indépendance en 1991, les attaques se multiplient contre ce droit et il devient de plus en plus compliqué pour les femmes d'interrompre leur grossesse. « Avorter en Croatie : la croix et la bannière », c'est un reportage réalisé par Simon Rico avec le soutien du Journalismfund.eu   En République d'Irlande, l'accès à l'avortement continue d'être difficile deux ans après sa légalisation. Seules 10 maternités effectuent des avortements, les listes d'attentes sont parfois longues et la prise en charge compliquée. Mais le gouvernement a promis d'accélérer le développement de ces services d'ici la fin de l'année Laura Taouchanov En Italie, les militantes féministes se mobilisent sans relâche contre les violences de genre, mais aussi sur les questions de parité ou sur l'accès à l'avortement.  Très actif, le mouvement ‘Non Una di Meno' - pas une de moins - a créé ces dernières années un important réseau sur tout le territoire. Reportage dans la capitale italienne de Blandine Hugonnet.   Européen de la semaine : Victor Gusan Parmi les conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine, il y a les inquiétudes sur un risque de débordement du conflit dans la République auto-proclamée de Transnistrie, région séparatiste pro-russe à l'est de la Moldavie, à quelques pas de la frontière ukrainienne. Gros plan aujourd'hui sur un homme qui détient beaucoup de pouvoir dans la région : Victor Gusan, surnommé le Sheriff de Transnistrie par la presse moldave. Portrait signé Martin Chabal.

After a wave of protests against vaccines and vaccine mandates in Europe, it is clear that despite very different policies across Europe, anti-vaccination movements that oppose them are remarkably alike. These movements are tightly linked, even though some of their connections are hidden. They amplify one another, and they have  elaborate ways to support their activities financially - from selling books on Amazon to offering legal services to anyone who feels they have been harmed by vaccination. We had discussed this with disinformation researcher Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, so we thought we will come back to this interview and highlight his insights that explain the mobilisation around vaccines these days. A researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project of the Oxford Internet Institute, Herasimenka is a co-author of a paper on misinformation distribution on Telegram. The interview was edited for brevity and clarity. You can read the Alliance for Securing Democracy's research on China's propaganda and search engines here. We ran such a search ourselves, and the clips in the beginning of the episode are from the results we got. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to our newsletter, and this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

A number of relevant articles, studies and data has recently come out, so Eva and Daiva review suggested readings for The Inoculation's September round-up. You can read these sources here: “Vaccine Passports” May Backfire: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study in the UK and Israel on Willingness to Get Vaccinated against COVID-19; The story of the German gas station shooting: Der Tagesspiegel, Der Spiegel; Covid denialists and far-right movements; AfD, German elections and Facebook; Facebook's international impact, and more; NDI's playbook: Combating Information Manipulation; The Johns Hopkins Center's survey dashboard; Article by Tech Policy Press; The Economist's op-ed on freedom and vaccine mandates WSJ podcasts about Facebook And check out our episodes on vaccine mandates and disinformation in Slovakia. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

In our first episode after the summer break we discuss mandatory vaccination mandates - something we have been researching before the COVID-19 pandemic began. In late 2020, we talked to former European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who has a lot of experience with vaccine mandates.  As a commissioner, Andriukaitis campaigned for vaccination measures around Europe. But before that, as Lithuania's minister of health, he introduced vaccine requirements for children, following a measles outbreak in 2013. But when he left for the Commission, without strong backing from the top, the legislation became stuck in parliament and was eventually repealed. Another measles outbreak followed in 2019, and vaccination became an electoral issue in Lithuania. You can read more about Lithuania's struggle with vaccine hesitancy in our article. We also talk to Oxford Vaccine Group researcher Samantha Vanderslott, University of Exeter Professor Jason Reifler, and Italian pediatrician Lorenza Romani. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation.

Aan tafel zitten Mireille van Ark, Leonard Ornstein en Spraakmaker Jan Antonie Bruijn. Het mediamoment van Van Ark gaat over De Slapelozen, het radioprogramma dat Frits Spits deze week iedere nacht presenteert. Wat maakt dit programma bijzonder? Nachtradio kent liefhebbers, maar gaat bij veel mensen onopgemerkt voorbij. Is het ondergewaardeerd? Het mediamoment van Ornstein gaat over de voetballer Steven Berghuis. Hij wordt sinds zijn transfer deze zomer van Feyenoord naar Ajax bedreigd en heeft inmiddels aangifte gedaan. Zo extreem als nu komt niet vaak voor. Wordt clubliefde te veel gecultiveerd? Terwijl politiek Den Haag langzamerhand weer uit de zomerslaap komt neemt de kritiek op de voortgang van de kabinetsformatie toe. Het kabinet is inmiddels zeven maanden demissionair en ook de verkiezingen zijn alweer vijf maanden geleden. Ondanks dat is een nieuw kabinet nog lang niet in zicht en dat is een schande, vinden partijprominenten als de VVD-er Frans Weisglas, D66-geweten Jan Terlouw en kandidaat-voorzitter van de PvdA, Pieter Paul Slikker. Ze pleiten voor haast. Vindt zo'n oproep via de media gehoor in Den Haag? Ornstein: “het is wel een wake-up call”. Zou de formatie transparanter moeten zijn? Moet er een deadline gesteld worden? Bruijn:  “De kwaliteit van een formatie kun je niet per se aflezen aan de duur ervan”. Heibel in boekenland. De uitreiking van de prestigieuze Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren door de Belgische Koning Philip aan de Surinaamse schrijver Astrid Roemer is afgelast. Dat besluit maakte de Nederlandse Taalunie, de organisatie achter de prijs gisteren bekend. Roemer kwam de afgelopen tijd onder vuur te liggen voor haar steun aan Desi Bouterse, en over de manier waarop ze op social media over de kwestie sprak. Moet je het literaire deel los zien van politieke kwesties? Er komt een nieuw Europees miljoenenfonds voor onderzoeksjournalistiek op het gebied van milieu. Het gaat om 11,5 miljoen, beschikbaar gesteld door een filantropen-echtpaar, en wordt verdeeld door Journalismfund.EU. Volgens dat fonds gaat het om een unieke beurs. Is dat een goede ontwikkeling, zo'n particulier fonds?

Summer special:  Hi listeners. before we leave for our summer breaks, we are taking a look back at some of our most insightful conversations about disinformation and misinformation. This week's conversation is with Bret Shafer, the Alliance for Securing Democracy's media and digital disinformation fellow Parts of the interview appeared in Episode 7. In this episode, Bret Shafer mentions misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. You can hear an explainer of the differences among them here. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation.

In this episode, we talked to Miriam Matthews author of a report published in April called Superspreaders of Malign and Subversive Information. It describes the types of COVID-19-related malign and subversive information efforts with which Russia- and China-associated outlets appear to have targeted U.S. audiences from January 2020 to July 2020.  Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

After listening to podcasts and reading numerous articles and reports on vaccine disinformation, Eva and Daiva have decided to share some of them. This is the first episode of The Inoculation's quarterly press roundup. You can find episode 6 on Sputnik V here and episode 8 on vaccine geopolitics here. The story on vaccine mandates in Russia is here. In this episode, we refer to Heidi Larson's book and a profile on her, Coda Story's article on disinformation in Spain, First Draft's article on disinformation in West Africa, a Eurofound survey, and we listen to a new podcast.  Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

An elaborate media network promotes Russia's Sputnik V vaccine by undermining the others, currently approved by the European Union. But what happens when an EU country decides to buy the Sputnik vaccine? Does vaccine disinformation adapt? Slovakia has recently started injecting the Sputnik doses it bought in winter. Daiva and Eva try to figure out what happened with help from Slovak journalist Lukáš Onderčanin. To learn more about disinformation, you can read the EUvsDisinfo's report. To learn how Slovakia succeeded in containing the first wave but then infections went out of control in autumn, you can read articles on Foreign Policy and The Atlantic and listen to our earlier episode on how the health ministry was combating misinformation on social media. You can read more about Slovakia's Sputnik V purchase here and about the domino effect in the region here. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

Across Europe, some countries are about to finish vaccinating the most vulnerable residents against COVID-19. It's time to offer the jab to the general population -- and some are not only refusing vaccines, but also calling on others to shun them. Research shows that neither more fact-checks nor more experts will tilt the population's attitudes towards vaccines. In this collaborative episode between Are We Europe and The Inoculation, we look into how parents find their way with so much confusing information online, and what approach to vaccine hesitancy works. You can read more about the politics of vaccination in Italy in Time magazine, Newsweek and Nature. You can find the study mentioned in the podcast here. Our interpreter in this episode was Romina Spina. Our assistant producers were Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation. You can also follow Are We Europe on all these social networks or become a member at areweeurope.com/member. 

Across Europe, vaccine hesitancy has become a common phenomenon. Research shows that neither fact-checks nor experts will tilt the population’s attitudes towards vaccines. Freelance journalists Daiva Repečkaitė and Eva von Schaper have been investigating vaccine hesitancy for over a year. In this collaborative episode between Are We Europe and their own podcast The Inoculation, they look into how parents find their way with so much confusing information online, and what approach to vaccine hesitancy works. This report was supported by a grant from Journalismfund.eu. If you want to hear more stories about vaccine hesitancy, you can tune in to The Inoculation wherever you like to listen to podcasts. You can also follow them on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, or on Instagram as the underscore inoculation. You can also follow Are We Europe on all these social networks or become a member at www.areweeurope.com/member. Hosts: Eva von Schaper and Daiva Repečkaitė Interpreter: Romina Spina Editor and producer: Daiva Repečkaitė

In this episode, we took a look at how the Russian government and its media networks used their power and reach to discredit Covid vaccines made by Western companies and how it boosted its own Sputnik V Covid jab -- and how this might backfire. Experts say that attributing anonymous or obfuscated social media profiles is tricky, but they tend to be remarkably consistent and align with the goal of promoting Sputnik V at the expense of Western, but not Chinese vaccines. We talked to Seb Cubbon, a research analyst at First Draft (one of their reports here), Miriam Matthews, senior behavioral and social scientist at RAND, Olga Dobrovidova, a Russian science journalist, Bret Schafer from the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), Peter Stano, lead spokesperson at the European External Action Service, which is the EU's diplomatic service, and Peter Balasz, a former diplomat and professor emeritus, Central European University.  You can read more about vaccine disinformation in the New York Times, CNN and other sources. A link to the transcript is here. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

Disinformation, misinformation, propaganda: While reading the transcript of a an interview with a disinformation researcher, Eva and Daiva noticed that the distinction between misinformation and disinformation was often unclear to them. So in this episode of The Inoculation they look for clear definitions and helpful examples of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda. Try your hand at EU vs Disinfo's quiz and see if you can distinguish them. You can find a helpful academic guide on these issues here. A summary of First Draft's research, mentioned in the episode, is available here. Our reporting is supported by Journalismfund.eu, Media Lab Bayern and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

Aggressive political networks, associations of concerned parents and even state-affiliated media - many actors have been found to share misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines currently used in the EU. "Oxford seems to have created a vaccine for monkeys," a host on Rossiya 1 channel said in September. Why are they doing this? And how can we measure the influence these messages have on internet users? To find out, Daiva and Eva talk to Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, a postdoctoral researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute. "The COVID-19 pandemic has already caused a huge political and social disruption across the world. We will see emergence of new types of political groups, political organisations that will be more disruptive than what we previously called populists. They will be potentially more damaging to democracy," he says. Herasimenka is a co-author of a paper on misinformation distribution on Telegram. You can read all his papers here. In this episode Eva mentions comparisons of pandemic-related restrictions to the Holocaust - you can read more about the phenomenon here, here and here. Our research is supported by Journalismfund.eu. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

After a series of delivery hiccups and reports of some frontliners not showing up for their jabs, Europe - and other regions - tensely awaited the European Medicines Agency's assessment on the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Its rollout was shrouded in rumours from the start. How can journalists navigate the landscape of statistics and personal testimonies? How can we best answer readers' questions? And how can everyone be better prepared for conversations about vaccines in their community? To find out The Inoculation talked to freelance journalist Laura Oliver. Laura is the author of A Freelancer's Guide for Reporting on Vaccines, published by the European Journalism Centre. She previously worked as a community coordinator at The Guardian, where one of her duties was sourcing eyewitness accounts from the ‘Arab Spring'. Later she worked on the GuardianWitness platform, before starting off as a freelancer and co-founding the Society of Freelance Journalists. You can read more about the reporting guide here and more about Laura here. Our research is supported by Journalismfund.eu. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

The Inoculation's team has lately been looking into misinformation. Together with colleagues in Latvia and Estonia, we investigated misinformation in the Baltic States for a story published in Re:Baltica. In this episode of our podcast, we look at how authorities are combating health-related misinformation in Slovakia. Jakub Goda, an experienced social media professional, joined his country's public sector to identify and counter health-related misinformation. "Governments and government institutions should use creative, digitally skilled people to communicate in the social media environment, and digital environment in general, and not to rely on old-school bureaucratic way of responding to journalists' questions," he says. "It's a kind of deeper mental transformation that needs to happen." You can read how he infiltrated a misinformation-spreading website here. You can also read about the People's Party - Our Slovakia, mentioned in this episode, on Deutsche Welle. More information on the party's links to health misinformation is available on The Slovak Spectator. Our research is supported by Journalismfund.eu. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

Are 'vaccine hesitancy', 'vaccine skepticism' and 'anti-vaccination sentiment' synonyms? Do people who say they doubt vaccine safety always refuse vaccines? In this episode Eva and Daiva discuss the challenges researchers face when trying to estimate the size of the anti-vaccination movement and the number of its sympathizers. Our interviewees are: Prof. Maya Goldenberg, Dr Jonathan Kennedy, Prof. Jason Reifler, Dr Samantha Vanderslott. We also thank Col. Gintaras Koryzna for providing valuable data. You can read the Slate article we reference here. In addition, we refer to the Wellcome Global Monitor 2018. Do read our story in Nara: https://bit.ly/3auBWke. Lithuanian readers can find our story on vaccination in electoral debates in the February issue of the IQ magazine. Our research is supported by Journalismfund.eu Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

Hello and welcome to The Inoculation, a podcast where we tell international stories on health, misinformation, vaccines, COVID-19, public policies, and more. We, Daiva Repečkaitė and Eva von Schaper, are two journalists looking into the politics and values surrounding public health, starting from vaccination. We also publish our stories in news outlets in multiple languages, which you can see here. Our research on vaccine skepticism is supported by Journalismfund.eu Please subscribe to this podcast wherever you like to listen. You can follow The Inoculation on Twitter at @TInoculation. You can also follow us individually: Eva at @EvavonSchaper and Daiva at @daiva_hadiva