{"id":47981,"date":"2026-07-14T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=47981"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:49:13","slug":"voices-festival-returns-for-its-4th-edition-to-thessaloniki-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/subject\/media-literacy\/voices-festival-returns-for-its-4th-edition-to-thessaloniki-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"VOICES Festival returns for its 4th edition to Thessaloniki in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Festival of Journalism and Media Freedom, <strong>VOICES<\/strong>, will hold its fourth edition in <strong>Thessaloniki, Greece, from 26\u201328 November 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Created to bring citizens, journalists, and media professionals closer together, VOICES celebrates the essential role of journalism and informed public debate while encouraging critical thinking and resilience against disinformation in an increasingly complex information environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following its first editions in <strong>Florence (2024)<\/strong> and <strong>Zagreb (2025)<\/strong>, and its return to Florence in 2026, the itinerant festival continues its journey across European cities, creating spaces for dialogue, learning, and exchange. Through talks, interactive workshops, exhibitions, and networking opportunities, VOICES explores key challenges shaping today\u2019s media landscape, including artificial intelligence and journalism, media literacy, journalists\u2019 safety, election integrity, digital well-being, and the future of media models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Thessaloniki edition will once again bring together journalists, media professionals, students, researchers, and citizens from across Europe to reflect on the future of journalism, strengthen connections between media communities, and highlight the importance of free, independent, and trusted information for democratic societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For more information and updates, visit:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/voicesfestival.eu\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VOICES Festival official website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Festival of Journalism and Media Freedom, VOICES, will hold its fourth edition in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 26\u201328 November 2026. Created to bring citizens, journalists, and media professionals closer together, VOICES celebrates the essential role of journalism and informed public debate while encouraging critical thinking and resilience against disinformation in an increasingly complex information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[270,5,276,272,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-av-technologies","category-general-events","category-lifelong-learning","category-media-literacy","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2026\/07\/Copy-of-now-available-in-8-languages-1.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Chlo\u00eb P\u00e9t\u00e9","author_link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/author\/chloe-pete\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48003,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47981\/revisions\/48003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}