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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xparagraph"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="xparagraph"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">We thought it would be interesting for you to have a look at some new DW Akademie resources we have developed surrounding the issue of media resilience.
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<p class="xparagraph" style="font-kerning:none"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="xparagraph"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">So many media organizations have been facing crisis in the past years: the COVID-19 pandemic, violent conflicts or natural disasters. Some were able to adapt - and we wanted to find out why.
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Together with Ann Hollifield, Professor Emeritus at t</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt">he
<i>Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia</i></span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">, and with Enrique Naveda, co-founder of the news laboratory
<i>Plaza Publica</i> in Guatemala I interviewed over 30 media organizations in 15 countries, who had experienced internal and external conflicts and natural disasters.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">The results can be found in our newly published products: </span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">The “<a href="https://akademie.dw.com/resilience-scanner/">Media Resilience Scanner”</a> DW Akademie´s new digital tool the Media Resilience Scanner is a comprehensive
online crisis preparation, management, and recovery tool for news organizations. It guides media professionals’ step by step through the process of realistically evaluating and planning for the risks they face, managing crises as they occur, and assessing
and addressing the residual risks to news media viability that follow major disruptions.
<b>U<span style="color:black">sers can build their own individual crisis plan, including allocating responsibilities and creating deadlines for their staff.</span></b><span style="color:black"> At the end, the Scanner generates a customized crisis preparation
and management plan as a downloadable PDF. </span></span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">The discussion paper
<a href="https://static.dw.com/downloads/61319698/dw-akademie-weathering-crisis-discussion-paper-2022.pdf">
Weathering crisis. Ensuring Media Viability, continuity and resilience</a>, a <b>
call to action for media organizations to assess risks and prepare for crisis.</b> It dissects the very complex issue of media resilience and continuity, while stressing the importance of careful preparation to increase organizational resilience. Weathering
Crisis identifies best practices of news organizations to decrease their vulnerability to crises and disasters.
</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US">The discussion paper is also available in Spanish. You can download it here:
<a href="https://www.dw.com/es/el-momento-de-prepararse-para-las-crisis-es-ahora/a-61378936">
https://www.dw.com/es/el-momento-de-prepararse-para-las-crisis-es-ahora/a-61378936</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">We hope that our work is making a valuable contribution to the media and the media development community and would love to hear your feedback.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me:
<a href="mailto:petra.aldenrath@dw.com">petra.aldenrath@dw.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Petra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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