Aleksandar Metodijev is a journalist based in both the German city of Bonn and the Macedonian capital of Skopje.
Metodijev studied journalism at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and has attended trainings in Athens, Luxembourg, Skopje and Bonn. He is also a certified 3D animator, video producer and video editor. He has worked for three Macedonian TV stations and is a former journalist, editor, radio and TV presenter for Deutsche Welle. As a workshop leader, Metodijev has conducted trainings on digital storytelling and strengthening media resistance to disinformation.
His career has covered foreign policy, economics, human rights and the environment. In 2023, he worked on a project about fake news, artificial intelligence and the misuse of identities in fake interviews for commercial purposes. In 2024, he won two awards for a project supported by Journalismfund. "The fragile forests" won the first prize in the competition "Facts and misinformation about the human environment" organised by the Council of Media Ethics in Macedonia, UNESCO and the EU, and the third prize in the national competition of the EU Investigative Journalism Awards in Macedonia. Aleksandar Metodijev won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the EU in 2003, organised by the European Movement and the Delegation of the European Commission in Skopje.
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