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Articles tagged verification (18)

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Mark Coddington    April 26, 2013
Plus: Sexism and the Times’ Jill Abramson, the AP gets hacked on Twitter, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
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Mike Ananny    April 23, 2013
“It certainly takes courage to speak — but it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right.”
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Mark Coddington    April 19, 2013
Plus: Medium and Matter join forces, journalism education discussion, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech reads.
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Mark Coddington    January 25, 2013
Plus: Google’s war with French newspapers, the inevitable privacy concerns with Facebook Graph Search, and the rest of the week’s media/tech news.
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Justin Ellis    January 22, 2013
The InformaCam app, which uses metadata to help authenticate videos and photos, is being developed with funding from the Knight News Challenge.
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Mark Coddington    January 18, 2013
Plus: The Manti Te’o hoax, The Atlantic’s botched Scientology advertorial, a check on CNET’s editorial independence, and the rest of the week’s media/tech news.
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John Wihbey    December 20, 2012
Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the studies about social and digital media they found most interesting in 2012.
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Mark Coddington    November 2, 2012
Plus: Lowering paywalls during Sandy, the ongoing fallout from the BBC’s sex abuse scandal, and the rest of this week’s media and tech reads.
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Mark Coddington    August 3, 2012
Plus: The fallout from WikiLeaks’ hoax, the rise and fall of Jonah Lehrer, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
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Craig Silverman    July 18, 2012
Opportunities to debunk or verify abound, and the price for inaccuracy has never been higher, Craig Silverman argues.
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Mark Little    July 16, 2012
“Authority has been replaced by authenticity as the currency of social journalism.”
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David Turner    July 10, 2012
The golden rule of verification: Get the person responsible for posting the material in question on the phone.
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Adrienne LaFrance    May 1, 2012
Researchers at Indiana University are examining how politically engaged Twitter users display journalistic behaviors and how they shape the site as a news source.
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Mark Coddington    January 27, 2012
Plus: Postmortem analysis of the SOPA/PIPA fight, more discussion on truth vigilantes and iBooks, and the rest of the week’s big stories in journalism and tech.