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Barbara Halla

Barbara Halla is the Managing Editor for the English page of Exit News, a non-profit journalism portal in Albania. Since 2017, she has also been part of the editorial board of Asymptote, an international literary journal focusing on literature in English translation, where she currently serves as Criticism Editor. Barbara has written about the cultural roots of sexual violence in Albania for Politikja, an Albanian academic journal, among other writing projects. She has a degree in History from Harvard and has lived and worked in Tirana, Cambridge, and Paris.

A Dream Deferred: The rise of anti-EU narratives in the Albanian media landscape

Barbara Halla

19.08.24

The benefits of being a candidate country are not clear, or at least they are not quite trickling down to the Albanian population at large. This leaves a gap, a gap easily filled by conspiracy theorists who are more than ready to use their platforms to undermine the...

Disinformation in Albania Is an Internal Affair

Barbara Halla

06.04.22

Regardless of flavour and aim, disinformation proliferates across the Albanian media sphere, traditionally broadcast or online. Often it caters to people’s biases and needs, derived from sources they have come to trust. Better media sources, with fact-checked and...

Beyond Conspiracy Theories: How Mismanagement Shaped the Vaccination in Albania

Barbara Halla

04.10.21

Barbara Halla While June had seemed like the moment Albania had turned the corner, with infection rates dropping in the single digits, by the end of July (after a record number of visitors had entered Albania, surpassing pre-pandemic numbers), the tide had turned. In...