Women are represented in (only) one quarter of the news published around the world. Newsrooms are generally dominated by male editors-in-chief. Yet, in Europe in recent years, some of the coolest and ...
Clara Jimenez Cruz
Clara Jiménez Cruz is co-founder and head of Maldita.es, a Spanish non-profit news organization focused on stopping disinformation through fact-checking and data journalism. Maldita develops tech tools that enable citizens to make informed decisions and engages with its audience in innovative formats. Shortlisted twice for the European Press Prize, Maldita has been awarded the Jose Manuel Porquet Journalism Prize. Clara also collaborates with Onda Cero, Radio Nacional de España and Movistar+. Between 2013 and 2018 she was part of the El Objetivo, a primetime TV show on laSexta. She was appointed to the High Level Group against Disinformation by the European Commission in representation of Maldita.es and is currently a member of the International Fact-Checking Network Advisory Board. She was selected Ashoka Fellow 2019.
In a more and more polarized world with elections being the target of misinformation, fact-checkers have become part of the worldwide conversation around the battle against it. Their work is diminishe...
In the current news ecosystem, filter bubbles, echo chambers, misinformation and viralized fake news are rampant. We will address how artificial intelligence (AI) could, on the one hand, help journali...
