TIRANA, Oct 3 /ATA/ – Identifying ways to expand collaboration between the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) and the French international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) was the main focus of the meeting between ATA Director General Valbona Zhupa and the AFP’s Balkans Bureau Chief, Camille Bouissou.
Bouissou visited the Albanian Telegraphic Agency on her first trip to Tirana on Tuesday.
Her impressions of Albania were the first topic of discussion, with Zhupa informing Mrs. Bouissou that Albania enjoyed a boom in tourism this year.
Zhupa and Bouissou discussed the issue of fake news at length as a worrying phenomenon facing the global media, as well as the ways to deepen collaboration in the imperative fight against the global phenomenon of fake news.
The two agreed that direct cooperation between news agencies in verification and timely detection of fake news is essential in this fight.
Given that AFP’s fact-checking network, which has seen it take a leading role in the global fight against fake news, Zhupa and Bouissou agreed that AFP can provide a valuable contribution through online training sessions for journalists in order to check and verify false information, as well as other training programs on environment and green energy.
Further on, the two interlocutors also highlighted the very good relations between the two news agencies and ways to further boost cooperation they have established many years ago.
Another topic of the meeting was the deontology and ethical reporting, especially when it comes to reporting on women and girls.
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