There’s a great-looking new free resource for attribution and verification: “Verification Handbook: A Definitive Guide to Verifying Digital Content for Emergency Coverage.”
I say it’s great-looking not because it’s pretty but because it looks like it’s great. I haven’t read it yet, but I plan to rectify that in the next 24 hours, and I have a lot of confidence in it.
“Verification Handbook” is a project of the European Journalism Centre and was edited by Poynter.org’s Craig Silverman, one of the best in the world, if not the best, on the subject of attribution and verification for journalists. It looks like he’s made seven appearances in the B/R Blog. The handbook is available online as an html document, but you can leave your email address and you’ll be notified when printed, ePub and PDF versions are out.
In an introductory post at Poynter.org, Silverman writes:
In the past three years, perhaps in part due to the spread of social media, smartphones and viral news, I’ve found myself more and more focused on verification.
With so much misinformation flowing fast and freely, and the ability for anyone to easily shoot, share and/or manipulate images and video, the skills of verification have never been more important. Yet it’s not taught on an ongoing basis in most newsrooms. And it’s not just journalists who need the skills and knowledge to sift real from fake.
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