Getting it right: here’s how to improve your fact-checking

The Global Editors Network Newsletter About us | Programmes | Work with us | Community 21 September 2017 Getting it right: here’s how to improve your fact-checking Fact-checking works. Studies show that receiving corrected information changes people’s minds, but fact-checkers are still faced with considerable challenges. How to make sure that fact checked information reaches those most likely to be vulnerable to misinformation? What are the failsafe measures and processes to put in place for effective corrections? What role can artificial intelligence adopt to streamline the efforts of these organisations? Alexios Mantzarlis, from the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter shared his expertise, and gave us five exclusive tips on how to make fact-checking impactful. Read more here How many reporters actually use data? ‘How many reporters actually use data?’ This is the question that prompted the Google News Lab to conduct a series of thorough interviews, as well as a survey, to gauge their work helping data journalists with tools, practices and processes. The results? The report ‘Data Journalism 2017: The current state and challenges facing the field today’, co-authored by Simon Rogers, Data Editor at the Google News Lab, and Director of GEN’s Data Journalism Awards competition, pointed out a few of the intriguing figures from the report: “Based on our sample (from the US, UK, Germany and France), some 41% of all journalists use data as part of their work, and just over half of all news organisations have a data journalist.” He elaborates further in the report, pointing out that 53% of the sample saw data journalism as a speciality skill that requires extensive training, and is not easy to pick up. Also, while above 50% of respondents want their organisations to use more data for their stories, they also stressed the time pressure they are faced with, with almost half of data stories created in a day or less. What is the next challenge for Rogers then? “I think the next stage is to look at this from the user's point of view. How do they feel about data journalism and data visuals? How do they impact on the way they understand stories?​” he said. Read more here How to report and stay safe during a natural disaster Harvey, Irma, Maria, the earthquake in Mexico, floods, etc. The last few weeks have been rife with natural disasters wreaking havoc around the world. Reporting from the crisis area is tricky indeed: how can journalists report effectively in these circumstances? The D5 Studio team from the Philippines Editors Lab hackathon, sought to answer this question, and give young journalists the tools to test their reporting, and decision-making skills when they are bound to find themselves in the midst of devastation.   Read more here Join the discussion on the challenges of holding the powerful accountable in the firstData Journalism Awards Slack discussion of the season. With guest speakers: Amita Kelly of NPR (USA) and Jelena Vasić of KRIK - Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (Serbia). 28 September 2017, 5pm CEST on the DJA Slack team Click here to rsvp and join the discussion What we're reading this week  FACEBOOK – The incentives of News Feed seemed to make fake news perform substantially better than real news." – Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic AI – "Who will provide the service of holding local authorities to account while shining a spotlight on issues of local importance? Well, it turns out, robots might." – Bernard Marr, Forbes PIVOT TO VIDEO – "Video is an extension of what we do [at BuzzFeed], not a liability or a threat to our journalism." – Shani O. Hilton, Columbia Journalism Review VR/AR – Four ways AR/VR will change how we create and experience content – Ryo Takahashi & Stefan Hall, World Economic Forum ANALYTICS – "News publishers reassure themselves with the number of Key Performance Indicators at their disposal. The selection of gauges is always indicative of business priorities (or lack of thereof)." – Frédéric Filloux, Monday Note COLLABORATION – "Quartz is partnering with The Monitor, a daily local newspaper in McAllen, Texas, to collaborate on a project about the effects of climate change in the lower Rio Grande Valley in the US." – Mădălina Ciobanu, Journalism.co.uk DATAVIZ – Storybench gathered seven different ways of displaying and explaining the impact of hurricanes, with graphics from various news outlets showing "just how extreme and costly these recent disasters have been." – Melissa McNickles, Storybench CONTENT OPTIMISATION – "A published post, of course, is never just one post: Multiple versions of it — with different headlines, but also of different lengths and using different thumbnail art — are shown to BuzzFeed.com visitors until the winning combination emerges after a couple of hours." – Shan Wang, Nieman Journalism Lab FAKE NEWS – How to fight ‘fake news’ (Warning: it isn’t easy) – Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times HUMOUR – Nation’s journalists remember quaint time when ‘Huffington Post’ seemed like death of news industry – The Onion Medium Twitter Facebook The Global Editors Network is the leading organisation committed to media innovation and sustainable journalism, empowering editors-in-chief and newsrooms through a variety of programmes designed to inspire and connect. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. You can unsubscribe here. 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