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What is checkdesk?Checkdesk is an open source application that enables participatory investigative journalism for professional
newsrooms and citizen journalists
With the rapid advent of real-time, mobile citizen publishing traditional newsrooms are struggling to find a balance between engaging with these real-time conversations and doing ‘serious’ journalism. !!Checkdesk is designed to address this problem. !
Social verification
Why check social media?Checkdesk enables our media partners to work collaboratively with
networks of citizen journalists to curate, fact-check, and contextualize social media content.
Why check social media?1. The stories journalists build and follow over time are increasingly
breaking and changing over time through social media !2. The person on the street has always been a part of investigative
journalism. Now, they are the person on the street and on Twitter/FB/Instagram/Skype, etc
!3. Investigative Journalism as the practice of finding sources with
information relevant to the story must view the social web as a critical resource for discovering, engaging with, validating and documenting
Checkdesk Architecture
Collections of updates
One or more reports
fact-checked URLs
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story update report
Stories A group of journalist form a story team. They initially create a simple headline and short description and can add an optional story image.
A journalist on the story team can add an update to breaking events updates are composed with embedded, fact-checked reports
Updates
Each story update is numbered, timestamped and attributed to the publishing journalist
Reports
Journalists can view the details related to the report submitted to the system related to questions the citizen journalist has or context relevant to the link
Journalist can view, and filter, a page that displays all of the incoming reports
Fact-checking
Inspired by the Git changelog showing revisions in software development, the checklog shows a timestamped list of the journalists’ fact-checking
Each status - false, in progress, or verified - is set by the journalist and visible to the reader
Next? Well, I am pleased to announce today the launch of the Checkdesk Investigative Social Journalism award. !Starting January 1, we will be opening up meedan.Checkdesk.org and all of our partner sites to submissions from aspiring journalists from across the MENA. Each month we will make cash awards for the most outstanding investigative reporting submitted through Checkdesk. So, let’s all start fact-checking. !Many and deep thanks to the our sponsors and partners, Birmingham City University, Welad El Balad, Bellingcat, Global Voices, Mada Masr, SMEX, International Press Institute, google.org, Knight Foundation, Arab Partnerships, and Sida
fact checking trainingOne hour exercise
!1. Break into Groups of maximum 5 people 2. Choose a report to fact-check (reports shown on next slide) 3. Work with your group for 20 minutes to develop and document a
fact-checking process or approach you propose to take 4. If possible conduct an initial investigation using your team’s
identified process 5. Call on Eliot, Craig, or Ed to feedback on the process during this
working time
fact checking training #1
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/03/woman-detained-lebanon-not-isis-leaders-wife-iraq
fact checking training #2
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11267182/Wife-and-son-of-Isil-leader-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-
detained-at-Lebanon-border.html
fact checking training #3
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