This hands on workshop provides an overview of the tools and techniques used to investigate a website, and to determine how it makes money from digital ads. Participants learn the basics of whois sea...
Craig Silverman
Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world's leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations. He is a reporter for ProPublica covering voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. Craig previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation.
Craig is also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. These free online books offer world-class guidance on how to verify online content and investigate disinformation and media manipulation.
Craig received a George Polk Award for a series of stories that revealed "how Facebook exposes the public to disinformation, fraud and violence." He was named to the Politico 50 for his work exposing fake news and its effect on American politics and is the recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association, which honors “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Craig's series exposing a global Facebook scam was named investigation of the year by the Canadian Association of Journalists. His journalism and books have also been honored by the Mirror Awards, U.S. National Press Club, and National Magazine Awards (Canada).
He was previously the founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada and the founder of Emergent.info, a rumor tracking project that was developed as part of a research fellowship with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. His research resulted in the publication of Lies, Damn Lies, and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims and Misinformation. From 2004 to 2015 he wrote Regret The Error, a blog about media accuracy and corrections, which became part of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and was the basis for an award-winning book of the same name.
In this workshop, journalists will learn how to detect, document, and debunk media manipulation and disinformation campaigns using the methods of investigative ethnography. Participants will analyze a...
Never before has it been possible to collect and distribute so much data. And yet a paradox is that amidst this flood of information, it is increasingly difficult for the public to find meaning amidst...
This workshop will guide you through the basics of how to investigate a website. Drawn from material in the new Verification Handbook For Disinformation And Media Manipulation, this hands-on workshop ...
Launching the new Verification Handbook for disinformation and media manipulation
The European Journalism Centre is releasing a new, free resource to help journalists investigate digital disinformation and media manipulation. This new edition of the celebrated Verification Handbook...
The increasingly complex subject of ethics cuts across every region and across all sectors – business, government, sport, music, tech – everything. This panel will look at how we cover ethical iss...
investigating the Internet: using data from social media, analytics, and the web to find and tell stories
Investigating the Internet: using data from social media, analytics, and the web to find and tell stories. It's essential that journalists on every beat understand how to gather and analyze informati...
Modeled after the Newsgeist sessions that ask "What Could Google Do for News?", we will bring the discussion about Facebook's role and responsibility in society directly to journalism with a construct...
A field guide to fake news: recipes for investigating misinformation ecosystems online. What is the state of fake news in your country? How can misinformation phenomena be investigated? This session ...
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‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem: how can newsrooms work with social networks to help solve this problem? This panel will explore the current debates about the ‘fake news’ debate,...
Mainstream, online news and social media alike have been replete with images of refugees since last summer. Images of people continuously on the move; marching through the countryside (on their way ...
Journalism and Silicon Valley: the changing relationship between the news industry and social platforms. There is no more intriguing or important commercial relationship in journalism today than th...
Three BuzzFeed country editors - from Canada, France and Spain - will discuss BuzzFeed International's strategy, with a focus on what works - and what doesn't - country by country. They'll share how...
Traditional news has tended towards highlighting the negative: what has gone wrong and the problems it causes. But is it possible to have tough, critical journalism that also looks for solutions and...
Separating fact from fiction: understanding the most effective tools and techniques for verifying social content. In this workshop, led by two of First Draft’s verification experts, participant...
The online world is filled with misinformation and hoaxes. Fake news websites, government propaganda, Photoshopped images, fake social media accounts and unethical scientific journal publishers are ...
We all need to be the first to run social and user-generated content when breaking news happens. That is the nature of a competitive news business. But what about asking for permission, or even wait...
Video, verification, value: why News Corp's purchase of Storyful deserves your attention
For more information, see Craig Silverman's article entitled Video, verification, value: why News Corp's purchase of Storyful deserves your attention
Collect, verify and analyse data for better conflict and disaster reporting. Today's technology allows us to gather and investigate on the ground reports of conflict and disasters without physically e...
Traffic on mobile devices will in the very near future overtake traffic on desktop platforms. For content producers it has become essential to think and plan with a mobile-first logic, focusing on use...
Verification Handbook: a definitive guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage
The Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid responders, which provides step-by-step guidelines for using user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies. Publish...
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