Key takeaways

Truth (journalistic truth)

• Journalistic truth is the best obtainable version of the truth based on verified facts up to that point of publication.
• News reporting is a continuing journey towards finding the truth as our understanding can only build over time.
• The news audience needs to follow the story over time.

Evidence

• Not all…

Key takeaways

• Our ‘snap judgment’ to click, like, and share media content is an ‘editorial’ decision.
• Platforms take our actions and preferences into the mathematical formulas known as algorithms that determine what content we encounter.
• Algorithms affect the patterns of our news consumption but to a degree, we can control how the…

Introduction

The following introduction activities are designed to bring out the following talking points:

• News is something new; something people want to know and share (public interest).
• Rumors and gossips can be true or not true, but news should be fact-based (verified or verifiable information).
• In today’s media landscape it is…

Introduction

[Transcript]

In print newspapers and magazines, we have what we call advertorials. They look and read like news articles but in fact, they are sponsored content.

In other words, someone paid to put the story into the newspaper, just like an advertisement, but it is presented in the form…

Introduction

[Video Transcript]

The fundamental difference between news stories and other forms of storytelling is that news is factual — it should not be a result of fictional imagination, which is to say, all the information in a news story should come from somewhere outside of reporters’ brain.

So, where…

Introduction

Establish how powerful the information we like, share, and produce on social media could be. You may like to show the following videos.

Activity

Social media pledge + self-reflective video monologue

Learning outcome

Students should be able to:

• Understand the impact…

Why news education?

A constant stream of fraudulent news stories in our daily media diet has given rise to troubling cultural trends and alarming political movements in recent years across the world.

False claims, deceptive factoids, exaggerations, propaganda, hoaxes, rumors, questionable advertising, radical extremism, and other types of misleading content, often called misinformation…

By Annie Lab team

We have created a Flipboard magazine to share our bookmarks of fact-checking stories related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

If you have any content that seems to have not yet been investigated by any. fact checker, please contact us so that our team can look into it.