UGC
A roadmap to the truth
June 10, 2016 | Julia Bayer
Verification of eyewitness media is a laborious process of collecting clues and answers to specific questions in order to find out if the claim is true or fake. Julia Bayer and Ruben Bouwmeester have created a verification checklist that will help you to make informed decisions. Read More
Automating Verification? IJF 2016
April 14, 2016 | Jochen Spangenberg
From 6-10 April 2016, the 10th edition of the International Journalism Festival took place in Perugia, Italy. REVEAL was represented by Ruben Bouwmeester and Jochen Spangenberg of the DW Innovation team. Here’s a short recap.
Reveal at EC’s Media Literacy EG Meeting
December 4, 2015 | Jochen Spangenberg
On 1 December 2015, we were invited to present Reveal and talk about the importance of verification of eyewitness media at the Media Literacy Expert Group Meeting of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, in Brussels.
The Deutsche Welle Image Forensics Dataset
November 11, 2015 | Markos Zampoglou
Journalists make use of Social Media ever more to find breaking news or to find background information to news. And journalists like to make use of images, because we all know that images say more than a thousand words. But what if those images found in Social Networks are manipulated? Nowadays applications like Photoshop allow us to easily manipulate images, be it for propaganda reasons or just for fun.
REVEAL @ ICT 2015
October 14, 2015 | Linda Rath-Wiggins
We are happy to announce that REVEAL will be at the ICT event from 20-22 October 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. So, come visit our booth, join our discussions and check out the latest REVEAL developments and our first prototypes. Read More
UGC in News @ Prix Italia
September 29, 2015 | Jochen Spangenberg
On 21 September 2015, REVEAL was represented in the session “News and User-Generated Content” at Prix Italia 2015. The panel discussed the impact of eyewitness media on the news business, what has changed in the past, and how to deal with respective challenges now and in the future. This provided an ideal opportunity to also showcase some of our REVEAL activities.
Preview: REVEAL @ Prix Italia
September 14, 2015 | Jochen Spangenberg
The summer is almost over, and we are in full swing again. That includes project dissemination activities. One upcoming event at which you can meet and find out about REVEAL and related verification issues takes place as part of Prix Italia in Turin on 21 September 2015. Read More
news:rewired revisited
July 23, 2015 | Jochen Spangenberg
On 16 July 2015 we attended news:rewired, a one-day conference organised by journalism.co.uk in London. We had the opportunity to present REVEAL and participate in a panel discussion that dealt with sourcing stories on social media. Obviously, verification of eyewitness material played a big role.