Upcoming Events

5-13 April 2023

A two-week in-house programme targeted to the newsrooms to train journalists for fact checking. The programme will help to establish fact checking units in newsrooms.

20 April 2023

A small start-up style fact-checking incubator to train and support at least three factchecking organizations and allow greater collaboration and triangulation of factchecking work. An open call for applications will be held inviting newsrooms to be part of the incubator programme. The three trained organizations will be tutored to produce six fact-checking pieces a month over six months.

2 May 2023

This is a baseline study to understand public perceptions of the media and thematic areas could include professionalism, quality and trust in content, media ownership, government intervention, regulation, awareness of the media council.

3 May 2023

The IFJ annual South Asia Press Freedom Report is a critical record of right monitoring, advocacy and journalism in South Asia and globally. It is the pre-eminent summary of journalism working conditions; advocacy for media rights and freedom of expression and the campaigns of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) – a broad media alliance defending journalists’ rights and freedom of expression in South Asia.

- 4 May 2023

To mark the world press freedom day, MJA is collaborating with Maldives Media Council to hold a national level forum on media freedom in the Maldives. The forum aims to bring together Maldivian journalists and media leaders to discuss the challenges facing press freedom in Maldives and what can be done in order to establish a free press in Maldives. This will be a platform to share the experiences of other countries in defending and protecting press freedom.