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Thursday, 28 April 2016

#verification in crisis reporting by #journalists - notes from the #Polis2016 session - some useful advice

Last Thursday I attended the #Polis2016 journalism & crisis conference at LSE, London, UK.  I've already done four earlier posts of the following sessions at the conference Jon Snow's opening address,  Reporting Refugees,  Brexit & journalism,  Reporting on Terror.   And from last years conference here is a post on digital & data journalism.  At the foot of this post are links to other posts about various conferences/talks.   This post is about the #Polis2016 conference session on 

 verification in crisis reporting.  


In the session each of the panelists did a short presentation/intro and the headlines from these are:


Hazel Baker from Sky








 
"Audiences may prefer to see eyewitness media over professional content - highest level of authenticity"

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    The role of verification in crisis reporting: very useful presentation from .


- so have a plan to deploy staff quickly to check sources

 - and have a quick way of sharing findings (of verified sources & of hoaxes) to the newsroom/team to avoid duplicated effort

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    Sky's approach to verification during Brussels Attacks from



Skillset for those working in verification crisis reporting.Thks for a useful presentation.




Eliza Mackintosh from Storyful



"Its important to be honest when you get things wrong" at "Role of Verification"


- If its too good to be true then that is a warning sign ...
- look at the profile and timeline of posts of the person reporting - is it likely that they are at the location they claim to be? 

 - look at the posts immediately before and after the post with the content you are trying to verify - do the posts before/after look right given the content of the post you are interested in


Alistair Reid from First Draft
With multiple organisations trying to contact an eyewitness to verify their tweet or post  - the sheer volume of messages to the eye witness can become unmanageable for them to handle
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    Great talk by on looking after eyewitnesses in crisis reporting


- Alastair also mentioned the importance of having in place a care or self-care plan for journalists who have to view traumatic videos

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For those at (and everyone else) you can download the verification guide here:







And here are some of the other comments I heard which were of interest

- often if its some sort of crisis people don't want to be paid for their picture/video

- whereas they more often do want to be paid for viral type content

- whats app groups are a good way of having an encrypted space for conversations that need that (I think I also heard that the BBC have been good at curating such groups)

When protecting sources it's important to be aware of all meta data embedded in shared media. Verification in Crisis reporting


- copyright & social media - there isn't much case law

 - speak to native speakers of the local language

 - when searching  for material looks for miss-spellings of your search term




other posts on RSA, TED or similar lectures & conferences

10 Useful Links posts  No.'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

2016
Journalism & Crisis Conference:  Jon Snow's opening address, Reporting Refugees, Brexit & journalism,  Reporting on Terror 

2015
Money Matters - Church Urban Fund conference - on building a more inclusive financial system
Digital & Data Journalism London News Impact Summit – 12 quotes + 18 resource links mega summary - then the detail
algorithmically enhanced confirmation bias - 6 uncomfortable facts about how facebook affects what we see - from a post by @nathanjurgenson
11 headlines on why we use facebook & social media - summarised out of a very rich buffer post by Courtney Seiteron  
Headlines from LSE analysis of #UK social #policy 2010-2015 in tabular form: #positives, #negatives & mixed outcomes - from @CASE_LSE papers found via @trustforlondonhow to innovate & survive - by   (Mark Payne)
18 top tips and thoughts about using #social media to enable #community source = an article by  Anatoliy Gruzd PhD & Caroline Haythornthwaite PhD 

2014
Data Protection & Privacy - 8 issues from an International Conference
escape your social horizon limit & understand more - source = a blog post summarising the work of  Jeffrey A. Smith, Miller McPherson & Lynn Smith-Lovin
social media & death - 10 things you may not have thought about - #DORS conference

2013
the development of the U2 spyplane - source = CIA historians Gregory Pedlow & Donald Welzenbach
considering culture and business process improvement  - source = an article by Schmiedel, Theresa, vom Brocke, Jan, & Recker 
ideas that may help you attract older volunteers - source = a paper by Brayley, Nadine, Obst, Patricia L., White, Katherine M., Lewis, Ioni M.,Warburton, Jeni, & Spencer, Nancy
physical factors which help people get better quicker - source = a paper by Salonen, Heidi & Morawska, Lidia 
a new approach to school and education - by Geetha Narayanan 
guiding principles on designing construction kits - by Mitchel Resnick & Brian Silverman
signs of overparenting - source = an article by Locke, Judith, Campbell, Marilyn A., & Kavanagh, David J
making ideas happen - source = a 99U conference

2012
how to spot a liar - by pamela myer 
measuring happiness - source = talk by jim clifton, jim harter, ben leedle

2006  twittr launches   2005  youtube   2004  the facebook online and digg   2001  wikipedia   1999  weblog software launched   1998  Google   1996  HoTMaiL   1995  auctionweb   1994  CERN release a web browser   1984  Apple Macintosh launched   1977  IBM personal computer   1976  mail via computers



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