Slides presented by Meedan CEO Ed Bice at the IPI News Innovation Platform event held at the Guardian's London office September 13, 2013. The topic of the presentation is Checkdesk - an open-source toolkit for digital media verification - which received the IPI News Innovation Award in 2012.

1. IPI News Innovation Event
The Guardian London, UK
September 13, 2013 Ed Bice, George Weyman Meedan.org
Social Media Fact-Checking
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2. What is checkdesk?
Checkdesk is an open source application that enables
open and participatory investigative journalism for
professional newsrooms in the Arab region.
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3. With the rapid advent of social,
mobile, real-time UGC traditional
newsrooms are struggling to find a
balance between engaging with
these real-time conversations and
doing ‘serious’ investigative
journalism.
Checkdesk says choose both.
Transparency brings the network
and the network brings answers.
social verification
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4. Why check media?
Checkdesk enables our media partners to work collaboratively with
networks of citizen journalists to curate, fact-check, and
contextualize social media content as it is being published.
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5. Checklogs
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
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6. A journalist on
the story team
can add an
update to
breaking events
updates are
composed with
embedded, fact-
checked reports
Telling stories with citizen media
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7. Our partners
almasryalyoum.checkdesk.or
weladelbalad.checkdesk.or
g
shabab.ayyam.org
maan.checkdesk.org
bcu.ac.uk/
7iber.checkdesk.org/ checkdesk.annahar.com/
smex.org
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8. Arab Citizen Media Arab Citizen Media
is a hub for citizen
journalism and
digital media
verification training
resources in Arabic
and English
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9. Next? Well, we have big and bold plans for
Checkdesk - sourcesDB, translation, discovery
Our overriding goal, though, is to bring the
ethos and insights of open source software and
user driven design into the journalists’ practices
If this sounds like your bag of beans, drop us a
line or swing by our San Francisco or Cairo digs.
Many and deep thanks to the International
Press Institute and Google.org for their
invaluable support for Checkdesk
@meedan www.meedan.org www.checkdesk.org
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