Tracking Online News Articles Over Time. A journalist's guide to verifying images. This doctored photo, supposedly of a shark swimming on the street, circulated on Twitter during Hurricane Irene. Breaking news sometimes brings out people who want to fool the public with doctored images, so every journalist should know how to verify the authenticity of photos and videos. Enter digital journalists Mandy Jenkins and Craig Silverman, who are perfecting the art of online verification. Jenkins, social news editor for the Huffington Post, and Silverman, editorial director of OpenFile.ca and editor and author of Regret the Error, shared their advice during their presentation, "B.S.
Detection for Journalists," at the recent 2011 Online News Association Conference in Boston.
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