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For three weeks this summer, CCT Student Deborah Oliveros joined more than 70 students from around the world at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria. The students came together at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change<\/em> to examine the global trend of misinformation and distrust of the media and develop tools to resist this growing digital epidemic.<\/p>\n Over the course of the program \u2013 entitled Re-Imaging Journalism: News and Storytelling in an Age of Distrust <\/em>\u2013 university undergraduate and graduate students took part in plenary sessions, workshops, reading groups and hands-on exercises that challenged their perspectives, provided opportunities for thinking outside the box, and transformed their ideas into action. Topics covered included critical media making, the intersection of civic imagination and civic media, the bridging of cultural divides, journalism ethics, and media literacy.<\/p>\n Georgetown student and Salzburg Academy Fellow Deborah Oliveros says: “The Academy is a safe space for exploration, to ask questions [that] you might feel uncomfortable asking in your regular environment or you might not feel safe, [where] that might prevent people from asking questions because they don\u2019t want to seem ignorant or they don\u2019t want to seem that they are not up to their peers. This is a safe space to ask questions without limits.”<\/span><\/p>\n