Strengthen team processes and capabilities to ensure the accuracy of content disseminated and/or used in editorial production, and know how to rectify errors where necessary.
Course Contents
Outcomes
Course Experts
Organisations
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Understanding the importance of fact-checking in journalism
Demonstrate critical thinking skills and know how to question information and sources to ensure their accuracy and veracity
Apply process development and updating steps to ensure content accuracy
Verify that the media's editorial lines are translated into processes that ensure content accuracy
Articulate tasks and responsibilities within teams to ensure effective and efficient implementation of content verification processes
Present information in a way that avoids inaccuracies, distortions and misinterpretations
Organize a timely and transparent process for correcting erroneous content
Adopt best practices for publishing content corrections
Jacqueline Dalton – Fondation Hirondelle
Jackie Dalton is head of editorial content at Fondation Hirondelle, an organisation which aims to ensure that populations in crisis-affected countries have access to reliable information and spaces for dialogue. Jackie has 20 years’ experience in media and in humanitarian programming.
Emmanuel De Solère Stinzy - Journalism trainer
Emmanuel is the founder and director of Journalists and Mediators, a French non-profit which works to strength democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights through quality journalism and mediation. Emmanuel also works as a journalist for various partners in Africa and France including CFI, Syfia International and Fondation Hirondelle.
Fondation Hirondelle is a Swiss non-profit organization working to ensure that people facing crises have access to reliable, local, independent information. It has been supporting local media and journalists in fragile contexts for over 30 years (since 1995).