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User-generated content

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Manage user-generated content responsibly and in line with the media's editorial principles.

Course Contents

Outcomes
Course Experts
Organisations
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the role of user-generated content in journalism and how it can enhance reporting by providing diverse perspectives and accounts of events
  • Assess the reliability and authenticity of user-generated content 
  • Understand the legal and ethical considerations that apply to the use of user-generated content, including copyright, privacy and consent 
  • Translate the media's editorial principles into specific guidelines for content generated by the general public 
  • Moderating interactions with users on social networks

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).