During an international meeting in Lithuania, creative minds who want to move media forward and make them more inclusive came up with the concept of Hi!ke: a series of events that will take place in several European countries. First of them took place in Rome and it seems there cannot be a better location. It’s a city that has been influence by many cultures and which also influenced many others. It’s the Eternal City, the city where the all roads lead to.
Hi!ke Through the Eternal City
During an international meeting in Lithuania, creative minds who want to move media forward and make them more inclusive came up with the concept of Hi!ke: a series of events that will take place in several European countries. First of them took place in Rome and it seems there cannot be a better location. It’s a city that has been influence by many cultures and which also influenced many others. It’s the Eternal City, the city where the all roads lead to.
At the beginning, just a little bit about the concept. Hi!ke is based on the idea to connect media makers – mainly journalists – and their audiences, including experts on various topics and representatives of socially disadvantaged groups, to meet in a very informal environment and discuss how media can better approach socially important and often sensitive topics, and how media can gain or regain trust of people, which is being eroded by distorted information and unprofessional media. The Hi!ke in Rome was especially important for Aurelija Babinskienė, who is one of the team members that developed the concept. Its creation was facilitated by Urtė Žukauskaitė-Zabukė and Gica Trierweiler, who led the workshop in Lithuania.
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Media for Citizens Story Lab is a project aiming to empower media makers to connect with their audience, highlight important topics, and move media forward together. This project has been funded by the EU programme Europe for Citizens.
