VOA Fact-Checking Fellowship for Moldovan Journalists
USAGM’s Office of Business Development worked with the U.S. Embassy in Chisinau to allow for two Moldovan journalists interning at VOA to get specialized training in fact-checking on January 6-31, 2020. Working under the direction of VOA investigations editor Tom Detzel, the journalists spent time at Polygraph.info, a joint VOA and RFE/RL project focused on discerning facts from fabrications in reporting by and about Russia. While in Washington, the two Moldovan journalists also produced reports and feature stories for their media organizations in Moldova, visited USAID, Foreign Press Center, think tanks, Congressional offices, and other news operations.