checkdesk @ ipi news innovation platform, london (sep 13, 2013)
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Slides presented by Meedan CEO Ed Bice at the IPI News Innovation Platform event held at the Guardian's London office September 13, 2013. The topic of the presentation is Checkdesk - an open-source toolkit for digital media verification - which received the IPI News Innovation Award in 2012.TRANSCRIPT
IPI News Innovation Event The Guardian London, UKSeptember 13, 2013 Ed Bice, George Weyman Meedan.org
Social Media Fact-Checking
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What is checkdesk?Checkdesk is an open source application that enables open and participatory investigative journalism for
professional newsrooms in the Arab region.
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With the rapid advent of social, mobile, real-time UGC traditional newsrooms are struggling to find a balance between engaging with these real-time conversations and doing ‘serious’ investigative journalism.
Checkdesk says choose both.
Transparency brings the network and the network brings answers.
social verification
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Why check media?Checkdesk enables our media partners to work collaboratively with
networks of citizen journalists to curate, fact-check, and contextualize social media content as it is being published.
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Checklogs
Inspired by the Git changelog showing revisions in software development, the checklog shows a timestamped list of the journalists’ fact-checking
Each status - false, in progress, or verified - is set by the journalist and visible to the reader
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A journalist on the story team can add an update to breaking events updates are composed with embedded, fact-checked reports
Telling stories with citizen media
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Our partners
almasryalyoum.checkdesk.or
weladelbalad.checkdesk.org
shabab.ayyam.org
maan.checkdesk.org
bcu.ac.uk/
7iber.checkdesk.org/ checkdesk.annahar.com/
smex.org
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Arab Citizen MediaArab Citizen Media is a hub for citizen journalism and digital media verification training resources in Arabic and English
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Next? Well, we have big and bold plans for Checkdesk - sourcesDB, translation, discovery
Our overriding goal, though, is to bring the ethos and insights of open source software and user driven design into the journalists’ practices
If this sounds like your bag of beans, drop us a line or swing by our San Francisco or Cairo digs.
Many and deep thanks to the International Press Institute and Google.org for their invaluable support for Checkdesk
@meedan www.meedan.org www.checkdesk.org
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