Empowering young refugees through media literacy, lessons for the news business, what to expect from fact-checking in 2019
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3 min readDec 21, 2018
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- Can we empower young refugees through digital media literacy education? Digital media literacy education can empower refugees to express their struggles and to challenge common stereotypes about them on different levels. For one, they learned to understand how and why certain messages are created and why news media are using certain framings to attract the attention of audiences through sensational, extreme, or stereotypical stories.
- Newsonomics: 18 lessons for the news business from 2018. From paywalls to politics, pipes companies to public radio, the Post to The Post, podcasting to partnerships, and the press to a president.
- The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker in 2018: Year two of documenting attacks on the press in the Trump era. Journalists faced diverse threats in the United States this year, including arrests, subpoenas to identify sources, explosives mailed to newsrooms, and — tragically — killings.
- Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years. A top reporter has left the German weekly news magazine after committing journalistic fraud “on a grand scale” over several years, the publication has said.
- In Mexico, ‘narcopolitics’ is a deadly mix for journalists covering crime and politics. “Narcopolitics means that the interests of public officials and organized crime overlap. As such, it becomes an enormous risk for journalists in this country who report on crime and corruption.” The violent effect of this overlap was clear in the July elections, when over 150 candidates were killed in a mix of political conflict and organized crime attempting to insert itself into the political process.
- Brazilian journalists gird themselves for tough times under Bolsonaro. Brazil’s media is highly concentrated in a few hands. Fifty percent of the largest media outlets in Brazil are owned by five families; those outlets include RecordTV, Bolsonaro’s preferred outlet, which is owned by Edir Macedo, a billionaire evangelical pastor and media mogul.
- Here’s what to expect from fact-checking in 2019, according to Poynter: “In 2019, we predict that fact-checkers will have to contend with the rise of government actions against misinformation around the world. They’ll see even more attempts to undermine their debunking efforts — particularly when it comes to videos. Technology companies will be coaxed into implementing more projects addressing the spread of misinformation on their platforms.”
- Here’s what the AFP learned from expanding its fact-checking team to 13 countries in one year. “We’ve published more than 650 fact checks on blogs in four languages (AFP Factuel in French, AFP Fact Check in English, AFP Factual in Spanish and AFP Checamos in Portuguese) and, increasingly, on our news wires too.”
- How do you make fact-checking viral? Make it look like misinformation. “The disinformation we were seeing came in visual layouts, adapted to mobile devices and created to reach virality by being light to share and easy to consume. We decided to copy the ‘bad guys’ in order to fight back.”
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