Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck is the founder and Executive Director of Lie Detectors, an award-winning organisation that works with more than 250 professional journalists to promote critical media literacy among schoolchildren and teachers. She directs Lie Detectors’ development and strategy and designed its concept and training approach. Juliane advises the European Union institutions, including within the EU Expert Group on Digital Literacy and High Level Expert Group on Digital Disinformation and Fake News. She has advised politicians and lawmakers on anti-radicalisation and lateral literacy in an age of media pluralism. To create Lie Detectors, Juliane put aside an award-winning journalism career, during which she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Reuters, MLex, and Spiegel Online among others, reporting from Europe and the US as well as from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Arctic. She is an alumna of New York City’s Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Edinburgh. She speaks German, English, Spanish and French.
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