News Impact Summit - Verification, Investigation and Digital Ethics – Hamburg, Germany
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News Impact Summit - Verification, Investigation and Digital Ethics – Hamburg, Germany. Organised by the European Journalism Centre (EJC) and the News Lab at Google. REVEAL presented an “ignite talk” by Jochen Spangenberg.
News Impact Summit - Verification, Investigation and Digital Ethics – Hamburg, Germany
- 1. Source: Janis Krums . @jkrums Taken on 15 Jan 2009 REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium Your Name – Your Company your@email www.yourwebsite.com Jochen Spangenberg, Deutsche Welle & REVEAL project Mail: jochen.spangenberg@dw.de, Twitter: @jospang REVEAL: http://revealproject.eu/ Twitter: @RevealEU Deutsche Welle: http://blogs.dw.de/innovation/ & http://www.dw.de/ Verification of UGC in news: status, challenges & ways ahead Taken on 15 Jan 2009
- 2. Verification of UGC (or eyewitness media)... ... is (or better: should be) at the core of journalistic work As published by the Daily Mail, UK REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 1 Source: ZDF Neo. Manipulation of a video of a Varoufakis speech of 2013. Available on YouTube here. Original video by Martin Beros available on YouTube here. Source: Twitter stream of Storyful (@Storyful) on 24 March 2015 Image of 2007 plane crash in Turkey
- 3. Verification of UGC (or eyewitness media)... ... is considered as highly relevant (by journalists and media folk alike) REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 2 Sources of all images: see http://revealproject.eu/ for respective copyright holders
- 4. BUT REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 3 BUT
- 5. The Status of Verification Different strategies and approaches among news organisations Different skill sets and experience among journalists Variety of useful tools available (most not specifically made for journalists) REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 4 Source: Screenshot of TinEye Source: Screenshot Panoramio Source: Jochen Spangenberg (BBC Newsroom / SMUGC Hub 2013) Source: Screenshot of Jeffrey‘s Exif Viewer Source: Screenshot Geofeedia
- 6. The Status of Verification Variety of approaches / initiatives / services REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 5 Sources: Screenshots of Emergent, Storyful ,Bellingcat , reported.ly, Grasswire, witness.org, Veri.ly
- 7. The Status of Verification REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 6
- 8. Summing up Awareness is rising Distributed know-how Lots of useful tools Verification at present … … field for specialists / experts REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 7 … field for specialists / experts … lots of manual work … no integrated technical solutions (yet) In 2013, we developed and started …
- 9. Involved REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 8
- 10. REVEAL approach and project components R&D Revealing/analysing hidden concepts in Social Media Computer-assisted / algorithm-supported verification REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 9 verification From image to text to geodata (and more) Develop individual components Combine components into integrated platform Investigate legal aspects (re use of UGC) Survey and assess the market Liaise and cooperate with players in the field Sources: see respective contributions on http://revealproject.eu/
- 11. Focus of R&D work C C ontributor ontent REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 10 C C ontent ontext
- 12. BUT REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 11 BUT
- 13. Algorithms as an assisitant REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 12 Source: plenty.r. (Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
- 14. To find out more... And go into details... REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 13
- 15. Thanks very much! Kontakt REVEAL Project: Co-funded by the EU FP7 Programme Nr.: 610928 www.revealproject.eu © 2014 REVEAL consortium 14 Jochen Spangenberg, DW Innovation Berlin Tel: +49 (0)30 4646 5604, Mob: +49 (0)172 261 2315 jochen.spangenberg@dw.de http://blogs.dw.de/innovation/ Twitter: @jospang http://revealproject.eu/ Twitter: @RevealEU