Every day we have to face lot of different
information; we are exposed to many different sources of information: friends,
fellow workers and media. Media are offering us a wealth of information and the digital versions of the newspapers are
constantly looking for the latest news in order to update the websites. Everyone can add a personal vision of the
topic, so sometimes we are at the crossroads and we have to choose the right path.
But how can we differentiate the accurate news?
The internet gives us this opportunity. Currently, all around the world, various
websites are growing, which are fighting against the enemies of the truth. This
is becoming a new way of making journalism in the digital age.
The company-reader paradigm is becoming old, and the
reader-reader relationship is getting closer. The journalism is becoming more
collaborative, the news can be checked at any time. So, the reader is active,
is not just a receptor of the information, but also a creator, an editor, thus
a journalist.
The Internet is opening a new opportunity to encourage
the true fighting against the governments, commercial interests or biased
versions of the information.
For example in Ukraine, the factchecking website Stopfake.org
was launched on March 2, 2014 by alums and students of Mohyla School of Journalism. As they describe: “StopFake.org community does not represent or support
any political party or other
organization”. The main purpose of the website is to check facts, verify
information and refute distorted information and the Russian propaganda. According to the latest poll December, 2013 Internet
has a penetration in Ukraine of 41.8% and is growing every year.( http://www.internetworldstats.com/europa2.htm
) The website is followed on Facebook by 36775
users on September 12th, 2014.
In USA the website Politifact.com offers statistics in order to contrast the
declarations of the politicians to the real facts. The website Africacheck.org is working in a similar way. It was launched by a nonprofit and non-partisan organization in June 2012 with the stated
aim of improving fact checking and news gathering in Africa. The website is
partnered with the School of Journalism at the University Of The Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Africacheck.org
was launched after it won an International Press Institute news innovation contest, sponsored by Google.
In Spain a country with a population of almost 50
million inhabitants, the website Filtrala.org is helping the users to know
different versions of the news. In Argentina the website chequendo.com is really
popular and in Colombia you can check Lasillavacia.com in order to review all the mistakes in the
national press.
In conclusion, we can think
that the next years are going to be critical because of the transformation of
the media consume and the new profile of the reader. So, we have to look to the
future expecting a better journalism in which every part could be involved in
order to create a contrasted journalism, a journalism more fair, not sold it to
the interest of largest companies or political parties.
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