Facebook Launches Project to Help News Organizations Create Products, Train Journalists
Facebook announced an initiative with news organizations to help develop news products and provide training and tools for journalists and the public that include ways to fight news hoaxes. The Facebook Journalism Project, wrote Director-Product Fidji Simo in a Wednesday…
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blog post, will involve deeper collaboration between news organizations and the company's product and engineering teams on developing current storytelling formats such as Live, 360 and Instant Articles. She said it will also mean creating new formats like presenting packages of stories to their most engaged readers on the social media platform. She said Facebook is interested in better supporting local news, promoting independent media and helping organizations boost revenue. In one example, Facebook said it's working with German tabloid Bild to provide free trials to engaged readers from within Instant Articles. The company also is providing e-learning courses on Facebook products, tools and services for journalists and free tools like CrowdTangle that measure the performance and influence of stories. It's also working with news and technology coalition First Draft to verify the authenticity of image and video content (see 1701040025). The Poynter Institute said in a release it's working with Facebook to develop a training certificate program for journalists that will use courses on Facebook and Instagram. Simo said her company will work with third-party organizations, including Arizona State University's journalism school, to promote news literacy and help people "make decisions about which sources to trust." The company, which has been the focus of accusations that it's helped spread fake stories, also reiterated efforts to curb such hoaxes (see 1612130030).