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PMA Update | 9 November 2024

Public Media Alliance

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发布日期: 2024年11月8日

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?? Applications for 2025 Global Grants now open!

We are pleased to announce eight Global Grants of up to ￡1,500 for employees of PMA member organisations.

The?PMA Global Grant?is provided for a media project that would benefit the applicant, their organisation, and meet the objectives of PMA and the Grace Wyndham Goldie [BBC] Trust.

As part of the project the successful applicant will also be required to plan an exchange between their own PMA member organisation and that of the country they intend to visit.

On completion of the project the successful applicant is required to submit a report, pictures and an account of their experiences.

What are the Grant Objectives?

To develop the skills and knowledge of employees of PMA member organisations who have had limited opportunity for travel
To benefit PMA member organisations and wider society
To encourage networking between PMA member organisations
To develop new and better ways of exercising freedom of expression
To share good practice and knowledge between peers
To work on projects that contribute to and promote the?Sustainable Development Goals

How to Apply

Check your eligibility against the?Selection Criteria
Read the?Application Guidance
Apply using our online application form?or?download a form

The closing date for receiving applications is?Monday?16th December 2024.?Travel should be completed, and all reports submitted before the?end of June 2025.

Please share with your PMA member colleagues!

Latest reports ???

???? SRG launches a company-wide transformation

On her first day at work, SRG Director General Susanne Wille announced to employees the start of a company-wide transformation. On behalf of the Board of Directors and in collaboration with the management, she is launching and is responsible for a strategy and organizational development process. This will be new for SRG in terms of approach, depth, complexity and timetable.

?? Caribbean media literacy project enters next phase with Barbados workshop

The Public Media Alliance (PMA) has kicked off its series of in-country activities as part of the?“Building the Caribbean’s Next Generation of Media Literate Citizens”?project on 5 November with visits in Barbados.?

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The Barbados Community College (BCC) was the starting point for the activities, with an assembly and Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Pop-Up taking place on the Bridgetown campus. The?assembly was geared towards 25 students studying mass communications and media & journalism. Students?learned about the current state of misinformation and disinformation, particularly in Barbados, and explored practical approaches to identifying, fact-checking, and combating false information, including AI’s role in disinformation and strategies for responsible sharing, culminating in group exercises to understand the thought processes of disinformation actors. Meanwhile,?the pop-up opened the sessions to the wider student population and covered similar topics.?

PMA’s Project & Advocacy Coordinator Desilon Daniels will continue her travels through the Caribbean, with visits scheduled in Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, and Guyana. She will be joined by facilitators Nazima Raghubir of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) in Barbados and Guyana, and Kiran Maharaj of the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. Representatives from the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean will also join the team in Jamaica.?

The activities in the other three countries will focus more on primary and secondary schoolchildren. In each country, the team will visit four schools (two primary schools and two secondary schools).?Altogether, these schools will represent more than 300 schoolchildren who will benefit from discussions on digital literacy and news literacy, and will engage in interactive sessions, such as developing digital safety superhero posters and creating news segments.??