Software, estadística y gestión de bases de datos en el perfil del periodista de datos

García, Xosé López; Bran, Carlos Toural; Rodríguez-Vázquez, Ana-Isabel

doi:10.3145/epi.2016.mar.16

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“…There has been a higher amount of academic literature about fact-checking in the past five years, encouraged by the expansion of these services. This issue has been treated from different perspectives: mainly, how the media and information agencies have incorporated verification techniques [8,[26][27][28][29], the commitment of verification to journalistic quality, and the fight against disinformation [11,30], the analysis of the verification of fake news in the field of politics [5,31,32], and the combating of COVID-19 fake news through factchecking [33][34][35][36][37]. In the case of Spain, studies have mainly focused on the analysis of the work procedures followed by the verification platforms associated with the communication or independent media that have emerged in recent years [13,[38][39][40].…”

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Spanish Fact-Checking Services: An Approach to Their Business Models

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The proliferation of fact-checking services is a fast-growing global phenomenon, especially in Western countries. These services are the response of journalism to disinformation, that has transformed a common internal procedure of journalistic work in the core of a business directed to the general public, also offered to the companies of mass media and social media. Literature review shows that the research on fact-checking has focused on the origin, funding, relationship with the media, procedures, and experiences related to politics and COVID-19. However, the ownership structure of the fact-checking services has been superficially analysed and the business model of these platforms has not yet been studied in detail and depth. The objective of this article is to identify and analyse the business model of the nine Spanish active fact-checking services through a documentary research of public information sources and the information that these services give about themselves. This paper explains their ownership structure and income provenance, from open information sources. The findings are that the fact-checking services that depend on media groups are no strangers to the trend of opacity usual in these groups, but in the case of fact-checking services that are born as initiatives of journalists, the trend towards transparency is, in the majority of cases, clear. However, the information provided by the Spanish fact-checking services is deficient and does not allow us to discover their business models, except in the case of Newtral and, to a certain extent, Maldita.

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“…Different studies have focused on the characteristics of data-driven products (Loosen, Reimer & De Silva-Schmidt, 2020), as well as on the professional aspect or the implications of this mode of journalistic practice in newsrooms (Royal, 2012;Karlsen & Stavelin, 2014;Bakker, 2014;Rall, 2012 and2013;Weinacht & Spiller, 2014;Tabary, Provost & Trottier, 2016). There has also been analysis of the evolution of the data journalist's profile and the characteristics that define this category as a new professional specialisation requiring skills in programming, searching, verification and visualization, spreadsheets, database management and statistics (López García, Toural & Rodríguez, 2016).…”

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The potential of investigative data journalism to reshape professional culture and values. A study of bellwether transnational projects

Larrondo-Ureta

Rodríguez

2021

Communication & Society

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This article offers a specialized view of investigative data journalism based on a study of recent initiatives that resulted from transnational cooperation involving different journalistic agents and institutions. The initiatives in question are The Migrant Files (2014), NarcoData (2015), Medicamentalia (2015-2018), Panama Papers (2016), Football Leaks (2016) and Investiga Lava Jato (2017). These products are analysed according to the main approach used in research in this field, which focuses on their content and characteristics as well as on the professional implications and difficulties involved. The conclusions suggest that the complexity and effort required for this type of product can be worthwhile in order to recover the principles of journalism and to renew and enrich the role of journalists, based on their collaboration with other professionals.

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“…Furthermore, this practice has made room to a new professional profile: fact-checkers (Ufarte-Ruiz and Manfredi-Sánchez, 2019), who use verification techniques and technological tools (Arcila-Calderon, Barbosa-Caro, and Cabezuelo-Lorenzo, 2016;López-García, Toural-Bran, and Rodríguez-Vázquez, 2016;Uscinski and Butler, 2013), besides the analysis, interpretation and the reconstruction of information (Amazeen, 2015;Renó and Flores, 2014), to clarify and shed light about information pieces elaborated in an inadequate or false manner (Casero-Ripollés and Cullell-March, 2013;Paniagua-Rojano, Gómez-Aguilar, and González-Cortés, 2014). Therefore, their mission is to uncover discourses, reconstruct and follow the course of spreading of fake news (Graves, 2016).…”

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Fact-Checking, a Public Service Value in the Face of the Hoaxes of the Healthcare Crisis

Ufarte-Ruiz¹,

Campos²,

Cepeda³

2021

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The dissemination of fake news is an increasing issue in the media ecosystem, which has worsened with the current healthcare crisis. Pandemic-related hoaxes challenge media, which have not hesitated to implement different plans to combat these contents. The objective of this research is to analyse the structure, make-up and procedures of fact-checking units that have been created in the newsrooms of the public service media (PSM) in Spain to refute false and unreliable information related to coronavirus. Two initiatives were studied: RTVE Verifica, belonging to the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation, and Coronabulos, from the public entity of the Basque government, EiTB. The method used is based on case studies, web content analysis and in-depth semi-structured interviews with those responsible for these departments. Such a triangulation of techniques has allowed us to draw conclusions and provide interesting examples to the research. The results reveal that these sections use traditional techniques and technological applications to verify content related mainly to healthcare and pseudoscientific information, which are published on corporate websites and social media. Keywords: hoaxes, coronavirus, healthcare crisis, fact-checking, public service media.

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Software, estadística y gestión de bases de datos en el perfil del periodista de datos

Cited by 24 publications

References 4 publications

Spanish Fact-Checking Services: An Approach to Their Business Models

Spanish Fact-Checking Services: An Approach to Their Business Models

The potential of investigative data journalism to reshape professional culture and values. A study of bellwether transnational projects

Fact-Checking, a Public Service Value in the Face of the Hoaxes of the Healthcare Crisis

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