⚠️Bulgaria is Europe’s most vulnerable to disinformation – low media literacy and news avoidance let false narratives spread across the EU. Read the whole publication here:

📢 Meet Iveta Tomeva – our new Project Coordinator at KAS Media Programme Southeast Europe!. She is a former scholar and business journalist, now eager to participate in our initiatives as part of the team!

⚠️RSF warns of growing political and financial threats to public media in the EU. At KAS Media Programme SEE we believe public media outlets are offering citizens reliable information, ensuring an independent media landscape. 🔗:

📖 Our book “Narratives. Experiences from Southeast Europe and Beyond” examines how stories shape identities, politics, media situation and the healing process in Southeast Europe, South Africa, Rwanda, Ukraine, and Germany. 🔗:

Google is shifting from a search engine to an answer engine – AI tools are cutting traffic to news sites. At KAS Media SEE, we see this as a call to accept the post-search era and stay committed to trusted sources. 🔗

Russia’s new “fact-checking” site GFCN isn’t fighting disinformation — it’s spreading it. RSF reveals it as a tool to discredit independent media and confuse the public.For KAS Media SEE, this reflects a tactic to discredit free media.🔗

New from @KASonline: International Reports 🎙️🌍 – the English-language #podcast featuring voices and analyses from our offices around the world on political, social, and security developments. Subscribe for free now: 

📚 @KASMediaSEE publishes "Narratives. Experiences from Southeast Europe and Beyond" – nine texts exploring the role of stories in media, politics and for the cohesion in a society. 🔗 Full text available online:

Great to host Alexander Beribes, Desk Officer for the Western Balkans & Southeast Europe, in Sofia! He met with Bulgarian media stakeholders, visited @bTV, and held a working meeting with our scholars. A valuable day of dialogue and exchange! 🤝

Happy to take part in the ZEG Festival in Tbilissi/Georgia. @KASmediaSEE on stage about Reporting from far away places and which narratives to use to make audiences interested. #ZEG2025 #CodaStory

The latest report of @STRATCOMCOE examines the shifting landscape of digital influence operations targeting NATO, Ukraine, the EU, & the United States. The study shows that pro-Russian & pro-Chinese narratives are increasingly aligned. The ones affiliated with Russia are more and

🚨How Russian Propaganda Works — An Example .A recent story claims that France’s intelligence services asked #Telegram to silence conservatives in Romania ahead of their presidential election run-off. Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, even posted on his channel that he refused to.

The @CSDBuildBridges report "Pravda’s Web" investigates the Bulgarian branch of the #Pravda ecosystem — a network of websites that floods the Internet with pro-Kremlin content. It targets over 50 countries, primarily in Europe. The analysis explores the Bulgarian #Pravda’s web.

You still have a chance to apply for our Adenauer Journalism Scholarship! We prolong the application deadline for the winter semester 2025/2026 until 10.06.2025 at media.europe@kas.de. The scholarship is intended for B.A. journalism students and M.A. students (enrolled at

What is Strategic Communication? @KASmediaSEE & @KAS_Moldova just concluded a working visit to Berlin with #StratCom Experts from #MDA, #RO, #BG & #SRB. We met specialists from the #German Armed Forces, #SWP, #DGAP, #KAS, #TableMedia, the Foreign Ministry, intelligence

🔎 After stop of US funding and Meta’s decision to shutdown its third-party fact-checking programme in the US, what is next for the fact-checkers in the Balkans? How can they keep their jobs and sustain their work against #disinformation? We contacted 12 fact-checking

🎙️ With the support of @KASmediaSEE, the 1st English episode of the podcast @auslandsinfo is out! In focus are the tensions in the South China Sea. What’s really happening in this region? As #China pushes broad territorial claims, the #Philippines & #Vietnam are pushing back –

The Annual Fellows’ Meeting brought together young media professionals & scholars from across SEE for three days of critical reflection, cultural immersion & exchange of ideas on media independence & democracy. Some highlights of the program were the panels with the media experts.