Lie Detectors is an independent and award-winning organisation headquartered in Brussels that works internationally to further news literacy. The organisation works with more than 250 professional journalists from public and private print, broadcast and online media. On 3 May 2021 Lie Detectors is bringing its award-winning programme of classroom visits to Switzerland in partnership with the country’s German-language news publishers association Verlegerverband SCHWEIZER MEDIEN. The campaign, which is already active in Austria, Belgium and Germany, will select up to 75 Swiss journalists together with SCHWEIZER MEDIEN and train them to deliver interactive news-literacy training sessions in German-speaking classrooms in Switzerland. More information about Lie Detectors launch in Switzerland can be found here.
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