CODIME built a robust community of practice focused on understanding regional disinformation trends, resisting and refuting these narratives, and fact-checking best practices. This community of practice centered around CODIME’s digital hub. The platform served as a public interface for Arabic-speaking professionals to access the latest tools in fact-checking, regional trends, and open-source investigation, and hosted a range of multimedia pieces exploring contemporary issues across the Middle East.  

CODIME hosted multi-day workshops and trainings, where participants tackled a range of issues, including public health, education, culture, politics, finance, and digital hygiene. The project also supported in-depth journalistic investigations and multimedia campaigns. Pieces included fact-checking videos, podcasts, investigative reports, features, and human-interest stories, each of which was aimed at encouraging active engagement and critical thinking among media consumers. 

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Launched in 2010 with support from the U.S. Department of State, PYJ sought to expand upon the success of Kloop, an online news site and media school in Bishkek that provides both hands-on training and a platform for young journalists to publish their work. Operating since 2008, Kloop distinguished itself as a prominent news outlet and blogging platform in the country.

Through PYJ, EF expanded the Kloop model, establishing similar youth media schools in Almaty, Kazakhstan; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and Osh, Kyrgyzstan. These schools taught young journalists practical skills in five key modules: news writing, social media, photography, media ethics and law, and videography. Students applied their new knowledge while undergoing a rigorous editorial review, resulting in the publication of their work online through the Kloop network. Over the course of the program, PYJ trained over 500 aspiring journalists and gave them the opportunity to publish over 5,550 articles in Russian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, and Kazakh languages. The PYJ program helped launch the careers of dozens of journalists working at independent outlets in Central Asia. PYJ alumni work at Vecherniy Bishkek and Radio Liberty in Kyrgyzstan; Interfax Kazakhstan and Vlast in Kazakhstan; and at AsiaPlus and Farazh in Tajikistan.

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