Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Reporting Fellowship
For
- Journalists covering gender, SRHR, human rights and digital rights
- Feminist media collectives and civic storytellers
- Influencers and online content creators
- Human rights communicators in high-risk regions
- Newsrooms and independent media working on intersectional issues to advance social change
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Location, format & experience
- In person training 3 days, approx. 18 hours in total
- Location: to be decided
- Language: English and Arabic
- Intermediate experience in journalism, media-making, or human rights storytelling; some knowledge of gender rights is preferred/desirable
- Based on consultation, customized options are possible
The challenge
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV), such as doxxing, AI-generated deepfakes, cyberstalking, and gender-based disinformation, is rising rapidly. Women and LGBTQ+ media-makers, activists, and politicians are often at a higher risk of being targeted, yet media reporting frequently lacks nuance, tech literacy, reinforces stigma, and overlooks systemic causes. Many journalists want to report ethically and responsibly on TFGBV but don’t know where to start, especially in fast-moving or high-risk environments.
Our approach
TFGBV Reporting Fellowship combines a practical, interactive reporting guidance with a hands-on fellowship to help journalists, content creators, and communicators report ethically, safely, and impactfully on TFGBV. The reporting guidance offers real-world scenarios, checklists, visual guidelines, glossary terms, and a language-use guide to support gender-sensitive, rights-based, survivor-centred and trauma-informed reportage and storytelling on TFGBV and related issues. It helps prevent revictimization, increase public understanding, and promote rights-based public discourse and policy discussions to counter and address TFGBV.
The TFGBV Reporting Fellowship is a 3-day immersive training that brings together media-makers to establish a nuanced perspective on TFGBV, including its intersection with technology and digital rights, practice using the reporting guidance discuss ethical dilemmas, and co-create and pilot storytelling ideas and approaches using the reporting guidance. Sessions cover image use, language framing, AI-powered threats, and platform accountability, ending with a scenario-based production lab. Together, the reporting guidance and training equip participants to challenge stigma, counter TFGBV , and shift narratives toward gender justice.
Sessions include
- Nuanced understanding of TFGBV and its intersection with gender equality, technology and digital rights
- Reporting on TFGBV: Launch and application of the RNW Media Reporting Guidance Ethical and trauma-informed storytelling practices
- Image and language use dos and don’ts
- AI risks, gendered disinformation, and platform inaction
- Scenario-based reporting and editorial pitch session
What you gain
- Apply global best practices to local stories
- Build trauma-informed, rights-based, and survivor-centered reporting skills
- Learn how to report on TFGBV without amplifying harm
- Access to a dynamic, user-friendly digital reporting guidance receive a certificate of completion (for fellowship)
- Join RNW Media’s global alumni network of 10,000+ professionals
What to expect
- The reporting guidance is distributed as an interactive resource with editable templates, case studies, and practical checklists. It can be used independently or embedded into journalism curricula.
- Learn about and use RNW Media built custom AI-powered chatbot to access TFGBV information from reliable, rights-based curated sources (in English, Arabic and French)
- Fellowship is a 3-day in-person training, hosted in regional hubs, combining expert sessions, hands-on group exercises, and ethical storytelling labs.
Programme Impact
"This fellowship gave us not just tools, but the language, courage, and networks to make change."
"Before, I was afraid to speak. Now I have a language and responsibility to do it"
"We need to tell stories that don’t re-traumatize. That’s what I changed."
"This fellowship helped me deconstruct how I was speaking about women online."
Certification
After you have completed all the course sessions and assignments, you will receive an RNTC certificate and join the ranks of more than 6000 successful RNTC alumni worldwide and our The Vine Platform.
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