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Articles tagged Nigeria (8)

Phillip AnjorinOctober 18, 2023

The Nigeria Fact-Checkers’ Coalition showed how collaborative journalism can work in West Africa

“I don’t want to build animosity between my neighbors because of information I can’t confirm.”

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Dani Madrid-Morales, Emeka Umejei, Etse Sikanku, Gregory Gondwe, Herman Wasserman, Khulekani Ndlovu, and Melissa TullyJune 2, 2021

Spotting hoaxes: How young people in Africa use cues to spot misinformation online

Some college students surveyed showed substantial media literacy — but being able to recognize a fake story didn’t always deter them from sharing it.

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 28, 2018

CrossCheck launches in Nigeria, with 16 newsrooms working together to fight misinformation

CrossCheck Nigeria builds on what First Draft and its partners learned about misinformation on WhatsApp from the Comprova project in Brazil.

Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-MoralesNovember 26, 2018

New data suggests African audiences see significantly more misinformation than Americans do

More than a quarter of Kenyans and Nigerians surveyed said they had shared stories that they knew were made up.

Shan WangAugust 21, 2017

BBC World Service kicks off its biggest expansion in more than 70 years, readying 12 new languages

“It wasn’t only about launching the new teams itself…The way we are launching new services impacts in a very big editorial way how we’re running existing ones.”

Christine SchmidtJuly 14, 2017

Expanding post-Y Combinator, OMGDigital wants to win the African millennial media market

“In the West, Cracked, BuzzFeed, and Mashable had really picked up steam. We couldn’t relate to the contents; we didn’t get the jokes. So we decided to create content for people like us.”

Joseph LichtermanJune 14, 2016

With embeddable tools, the German startup Opinary is trying to change the way readers share opinions

The company started as a side project, but with €1 million in outside investment, Opinary is now in 10 German newsrooms and looking toward the United States.

January 19, 2010

Ethan Zuckerman: Advocacy, agenda and attention: Unpacking unstated motives in NGO journalism