
Media Development Foundation (MDF)
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Leading Georgian NGO in #MediaMonitoring, teaching #MediaLiteracy and #FactChecking.
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📢 Tamar Kintsurashvili, Executive Director of the Media Development Foundation (MDF), offers insights into MDF’s work in monitoring #hatespeech and anti-Western narratives and researching disinformation, including #GenderedDisinformation in Georgia. full interview👉 50-50magazine.fr/2025/05/15/tam…

🎙️According to data gathered from open sources by the Media Development Foundation (MDF) between 2022 and 2025, there have been 14 cases of #journalists being denied entry to #Georgia. 🚫The border closes for unwanted journalists: Who is and isn’t welcome in Georgia? Read here 👉mediameter.ge/en/content/bor…


📢Read Tamar Kintsurashvili's, Executive Director of the Media Development Foundation (MDF) and DW Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award 2025 winner, interview with REUC.eu 👉reuc.eu/guest-journali…

How can we safeguard journalism amidst the global rise of authoritarianism? The expert panel with Tamar Kintsurashvili, Christian Mihr and Ines Drefs tried to answer this question on June 2 at DW Freedom Talk organized by DW Akademie




Ahead of the #GMF25, we asked Tamar Kintsurashvili (Tamar Kintsurashvili), Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Media Development Foundation (MDF), what she's looking forward to during the GMF and what she considers to be one of the most pressing issues in journalism that needs to be addressed. 💬


Deputy Head of EU Delegation, Zane Rungule, joined media literacy training by MDF & DW Akademie, with EU support "I want to thank MDF for resilience & tireless work - especially under pressure - to promote media literacy, empowering youth to think critically & to protect truth"


Several Georgian NGOs, including our member Media Development Foundation (MDF), have received court orders to hand over sensitive data to the so-called Anti-Corruption Bureau. This is the latest in a series of increasingly repressive measures against civil society. Statement: efcsn.com/news/2025-06-2…



“We're obstacles for a government that tries to manipulate public opinion” - MDF's Executive Director, Tamar Kintsurashvili, on DW Akademie’s new podcast 👇

In her laudation for #FoSA laureate Tamar Kintsurashvili, Anja Osterhaus (Reporter ohne Grenzen) underscored the worsening state of press freedom in Georgia and praised Tamar's unwavering fight against disinformation, hailing her as "a true champion of independent journalism."


"I am extremely honored and proud to be the recipient of the Freedom of Speech Award 2025," Tamar Kintsurashvili said in her acceptance speech. "This recognition comes at a critical time for my country, when Georgia, once a transitional democracy with the ambition to join the European...


"I am extremely honored and proud to be the recipient of the Freedom of Speech Award 2025," Tamar Kintsurashvili said at the @dw_gmf. "Through our united efforts and consistent actions, we can safeguard democracy and resist the creeping authoritarianism that seeks to silence us."

