The year 2024 was a tumultuous one for journalism in Georgia. With an increasingly repressive environment, media outlets and journalists face mounting challenges, including new legislative restriction...
Tamar Kintsurashvili
Tamar Kintsurashvili is the founder and executive director of the Media Development Foundation in Georgia and the editor-in-chief of the fact-checking platform Myth Detector. Tamar leads media literacy programs for youth and teachers. She is a member of the Deutsche Welle Akademie Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN) and the UNESCO MIL Alliance nomination committee. Tamar is the author and co-author of many research papers and publications on Russian information warfare in Ukraine, anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilization in Georgia, infodemic, anti-Western propaganda, etc. Tamar is an associate professor at the Ilia State University. She teaches propaganda research methods, media literacy, and media self-regulations and ethics. She received an MSc in policy studies from Edinburgh University and MA in journalism from Tbilisi State University.
founder and executive director Media Development FoundationEventi IJF 2025