Fact-Checking & Verification

 

GIJN’s Guide to Fact-Checking Investigative Stories by Nils Hanson (2021)
GIJN’s Four Quick Ways to Verify Images on a Smartphone by Raymond Joseph. (2021)
Making Stories Ironclad & Bulletproof Line-by-Line, by Nils Hanson, former Investigative Editor for Swedish Television.

Engagement or Reach: How To Best Find Our Audience

At a recent meeting of the Institute for Nonprofit News – for my sins, I now sit on INN’s board – we learned an interesting statistic: About half the organization’s members have a strategy to drive readers to their own sites/destinations, and the other half count on distributing their content via other platforms. Does it matter how we reach readers? And should we care?

फर्जी वीडियो की जांच कैसे करें?

डिजिटल उपकरणों का उपयोग करके हरेक सामग्री को सत्यापित करने की भी एक सीमा है। हर मामले में एल्गोरिदम कारगर हो, ऐसा जरूरी नहीं। कोई चाहे तो एल्गोरिदम को झांसा देने वाले तरीकों का उपयोग करके फर्जी सामग्री अपलोड कर सकता है। ऐसे लोग ‘रिवर्स इमेज सर्च‘ से बचने के लिए कुछ ट्रिक्स का इस्तेमाल करते हैं। जैसे, वीडियो मिरर करना, कलर स्कीम को ब्लैक एंड व्हाइट में बदलना, जूम इन या आउट करना इत्यादि। इसके लिए जांच का सबसे अच्छा तरीका यह है कि वीडियो के हर पहलू पर गौर करें। उसे जिस तरह की घटना बताया जा रहा है, उसके साथ वीडियो के हर पहलू का कितना तालमेल है? वीडियो उस कथित घटना के अनुरूप है अथवा नहीं?

ProPublica illustration for The Secret IRS Files'

Data Journalism Top 10: Secret Tax Files, India’s Faltering Vaccines, Western Drought, Argentina’s News Deserts, The Gambia’s Toxic Water

Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from June 7 to 13, which tracks the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter each week, focused in on this major investigation by ProPublica, which offers an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of US billionaires. In this edition, we also feature a detailed look at India’s faltering vaccination campaign, a data project exploring Argentina’s news deserts, and an investigation of The Gambia’s water paradox.

Job Opening – Social Media and Engagement Editor (8-Month Maternity Cover) [CLOSED]

Position: Social Media and Engagement Editor (8-month maternity cover from mid-January to mid-August 2021), Global Investigative Journalism Network

This job post is now closed. Deadline: December 1, 2020

GIJN, a fast-growing nonprofit, is looking for an interim Social Media and Engagement Editor to aggregate and distribute investigative tips, tools and resources over GIJN’s outreach platforms daily.

Secrets to Searching for Video Footage

Verifying videos is important, but first you have to find them. This Bellingcat guide will provide advice and some tips on how to gather as much video as possible on a particular event, whether it is videos from witnesses of a natural disaster or a terrorist attack.