Verification Handbook
A Definitive Guide To Verifying Digital Content For Emergency Coverage
The first edition of the Verification Handbook has become a definitive reference for professionals worldwide. This book laid the foundations for the process of digital content verification and opened a necessary debate about the steps to follow for ensuring the accuracy of reporting within emergency situations. Used by educators and journalists of any level, this pioneering book is an essential read for learning about the best-practices for verifying user-generated content and developing appropriate verification processes.
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Foreword
- Foreword 1 min
When Emergency News Breaks
Verification Fundamentals: Rules to Live By
Verifying User-Generated Content
Verifying Images
Verifying Video
Putting the Human Crowd to Work
Adding the Computer Crowd to the Human Crowd
Preparing for Disaster Coverage
Creating a Verification Process and Checklist(s)
Verification Tools
- 10. Verification Tools 5 min
Appendix:
Additional Materials
- Verification and Fact Checking 4 min
- Creating a Verification Workflow 3 min
- Tracking Back a Text Message: Collaborative Verification with Checkdesk 3 min
- The Fake Football Reporter 2 min
- The Story of Jasmine Tridevil: Getting around Roadblocks to Verification 4 min
- Stolen Batmobile: How to Evaluate the Veracity of a Rumor 4 min
- Russian Bear Attack: Tracking Back the Suspect Origin of a Viral Story 4 min
- Educator’s Guide: Types of Online Fakes 9 min
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An essential read for learning about the best verification practices
The first edition of the Verification Handbook has become a definitive reference for professionals worldwide. This book laid the foundations for the process of digital content verification and opened a necessary debate about the steps to follow for ensuring the accuracy of reporting within emergency situations. Used by educators and journalists of any level, this pioneering book is an essential read for learning about the best-practices for verifying user-generated content and developing appropriate verification processes.
The following pages illustrate the hands-on experience of practitioners from some of the world's top news organizations, NGOs, and technical communities. Given the current situation of information overload, reviewing this handbook is a necessary exercise to understand the transformation that digital content has experienced in the last few years.