{"id":2745,"date":"2014-06-06T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2014-06-08T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T19:41:32","slug":"global-fact-checking-summit-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zastone.ba\/en\/global-fact-checking-summit-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Fact-Checking Summit in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by: Bill Adair<\/em><\/p>\n

With fact-checking growing around the world, the Poynter Institute will convene the first Global Fact-Checking Summit, to be held in June in London.<\/p>\n

The conference, at the London School of Economics on June 9-10, will bring together about 40 fact-checkers from places such as South Africa, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, India, the United States, South America and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

\"Untitled\"Fact-checking is expanding rapidly around the globe, according to\u00a0a new analysis<\/a>\u00a0from the Duke University Reporters\u2019 Lab. The Duke study found 59 sites that have been active in the last few years, including 44 currently in operation.<\/p>\n

About half of the sites are affiliated with newspapers, television networks or other legacy media organizations. The other half are run by startup companies or not-for-profit groups. Twenty-seven have started in the past two years.<\/p>\n

The Global Fact-Checking Summit is sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Duke Reporters\u2019 Lab, the British fact-checking site Full Fact, and craigconnects, the Web-based initiative to support philanthropy and public service run by Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.<\/p>\n

Topics will include the growth and challenges of fact-checking, the best techniques for researching claims, the pros and cons of rating systems, the use of crowdsourcing and the need to find sustainable business models.<\/p>\n

\u201cFact-checking is quickly becoming an important new form of accountability journalism,\u201d said Poynter President Tim Franklin. \u201cPoynter will play a leading role to help journalists do their best work and foster the growth of fact checking, which is vital to democracies around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conference also represents Poynter\u2019s strategy to greatly expand its training initiatives across the globe. Last month, Poynter led a series of seminars for journalists in India. Later this month, the institute will formally announce the launch of a training project for Turkish journalists. The project includes e-learning courses through NewsU Turkiye, a certificate program and a fellowship that will bring up to 20 Turkish journalists to Poynter in the fall.<\/p>\n

Presenters at the fact-checking conference will include editors from PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning site in the United States, and Chequeado, an independent fact-checking site in Argentina, as well as Lucas Graves, a University of Wisconsin professor who is writing a book about the rise of fact-checking, and Bill Adair, a Duke University professor and adjunct faculty member at Poynter.<\/p>\n

As members of ACTION SEE network (Accountability, Transparency and Institutional Openness Network in the SEE),\u00a0CA Why not team will join\u00a0Global Fact-Checking Summit that is organized by\u00a0the Poynter Institute.<\/p>\n

For more information about the conference, contact Bill Adair at bill.adair@duke.edu<\/p>\n

(poynter.org)<\/p>\n

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