Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Verfication of sources

Make sure that you always use verified sources. 
Here some articles about the issue:

Code of Ethics of Aljazeera

Interesting study of Trusted Media: How to build Trust in the Digital Age

You can download the study here: The Nieman Foundation about the BBC’s Verification Hub

The verification process in the BBC Newsroom in London includes among other factors:

 - Referencing locations against maps and existing images from, in particular, geo-located ones.

 - Working with our colleagues in BBC Arabic and BBC Monitoring to ascertain that accents and language are correct for the location.

- Searching for the original source of the upload/sequences as an indicator of date.

- Examining weather reports and shadows to confirm that the conditions shown fit with the claimed date and time.

- Maintaining lists of previously verified material to act as reference for colleagues covering the stories.

- Checking weaponry, vehicles and licence plates against those known for the given country.

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