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Any organization tasked with getting critical information to local communities—whether responding to a crisis like the pandemic or trying to challenge social injustices—needs a strategy for making sure their message is believed. Journalism offers insight into building trust as people's wariness threatens the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines.

• Read more about Lessons From Journalists on Building Trust With Local Communities During Crises

A few months before the COVID-19 pandemic, seasoned Tajik journalist, Zebo Tajibaeva, launched her own media outlet - Your.tj.

• Read more about Podcasts Shed Light on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tajikistan

(Internews, with support from USAID, trained people from various backgrounds in Kazakhstan 2018 to 2020 to become media and digital literacy trainers.)

• Read more about Leveraging Radio to Spread Media Literacy Across Kazakhstan

Faced with low trust and high competition, media needs to win its audience back

• Read more about ‘Disinformation fills the gap’