Journalists and newsrooms

Citizens urgently need media literacy skills to make sense of individualised news feeds and social media steered by algorithms. Who better to help than professional journalists?

Lie Detectors trains selected professional journalists, media experts and newsrooms to impart basic journalistic tools to students aged 10-15 and to teachers with an award-winning training concept.

Journalists trained by Lie Detectors will never tell audiences what to think, empowering them instead to harness their natural curiosity and powers of inquiry, to seek out the truth, resist false and polarising content and navigate ambiguity with care.

Click here for a list of media experts who have worked with Lie Detectors.

Join our community of 500 journalists

  • "In a polarised environment, what is critical to effective education is a neutral, non-partisan approach that translates across countries."

    Teacher, Poland

  • "We journalists have front-row seats in the fake-news spectacle. Through Lie Detectors, we get to do something about it."

    Maria Udrescu
    Journalist, La Libre Belgique, Belgium

  • "The best Zoom call I ever had."

    Le Soir journalist Patricia Labar after a digital visit to a classroom in Belgium

  • "Truly uplifting to see the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of these children. And no doubt this will give me good karma too."

    Jochen Spangenberg
    Media expert, lecturer, founder/member of InVid fact-checking consortium, Berlin, Germany

  • "When I grow up I want to be a journalist (or a dancer)."

    11-year-old, Belgium

How journalists work with Lie Detectors

We train journalists to teach media literacy. Join us to make a difference.

91%

of teachers say journalists are key experts to transmit digital skills

93%

of schoolchildren say verifying information is an infrequent activity at school

96%

of journalists enjoy Lie Detectors

Lie Detectors cooperates with newsrooms

Our ethics

Lie Detectors subscribes to professional codes of journalism ethics, as described by the International federation of Journalists and the Ethical Journalism Network. All journalists participating in the Lie Detectors project commit to a set of ethical guidelines and are bound by a cooperation agreement to ensure standards of non-partisanship, courtesy, an inclusive and age-relevant approach, as well as standards of punctuality and equal delivery of classroom visits.

Our selection criteria are strict and we are sorry we cannot include journalists and media experts who do paid work for political or commercial non-journalistic entities.