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Jun

    Importance of Academia-Media Collaboration in Fact-Checking – An Excerpt From First Check’s Coffee Table Book

    • Walter Balane / 8 months
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    • 3 min read

    Collaboration between universities and media organisations can significantly strengthen the fight against health misinformation by leveraging the expertise and resources of both sectors. “Educators in universities can collaborate with media organisations to build fact-checking teams.” A lot has changed since I started my fact-checking journey in 2019. Today, we have health experts who are media […]

    05
    May

      First Check Diaries by Walter Balane

      • Walter Balane / 2 years
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      • 2 min read

      As a journalist and radio broadcaster, fact-checking has become an integral part of my work. We need to check, verify, and counter-check facts, before using them in storytelling. My fact-checking journey started in 2019, after attending a training session. Soon, I started a pilot fact-checking initiative in our community news group. This was just before […]