Join us for ‘Ground Truth in Open Internet’ — the new Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and Training
Introducing our Ground Truth in Open Internet Series
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Online narrative power as social power -
Access to information and paywalls in the time of COVID -
How to address mis & disinformation campaigns shifting the focus of traditional news audiences -
The rising role of nonprofit media and the gap they fill -
Open licensed media
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Copyright basics for journalists -
Tools for open access research -
Access to usable photo and media archives -
How to best use openly-licensed media
Key Dates and Session Information
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January 20, 7:00 pm UTC/2:00 pm EST -
Speaker: Ashley Edwards , US Partnerships Manager, Google News Initiative -
Speaker: Catherine Stihler , CEO of Creative Commons -
To kick off the discussion series, Google News Initiative and Creative Commons will reflect on the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology, journalism, and social power.
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January 27, 4:30 pm UTC/ 11:30 am EST -
Speaker: Kate Levan , Disinformation Specialist – Trust & Safety, Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) -
Speaker: Diego Saez-Trumper , Senior Research Scientist at Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) -
This conversation will highlight Wikimedia Foundation’s technical perspective and community-led approach to addressing mis and disinformation campaigns on Wikipedia, highlighting the Croatian Disinformation Case and the Biden Campaign Disinformation Retrospective .
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February 8, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST -
Speaker: Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society -
Speaker: Torsha Sarkar , Policy Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society -
Speaker: Peter B. Kaufman , MIT Open Learning -
Speakers will explore risks of digital platforms: further marginalizing languages, spreading disinformation, and perpetuating power structures in India and globally. Speakers will also describe new ways journalists can work with digital knowledge institutions. Conversation will draw from the Centre for Internet and Society’s Global Disinformation Index’s (GDI) study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India , a forthcoming collaborative report on the State of the Internet’s Languages , and Peter Kaufman’s recent book, ” The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge ” ( CC licensed version here ).
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February 15, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST -
Speaker: Cecília Oliveira , Investigative Journalist and founder of Fogo Cruzado -
Cecília Oliveira will discuss developing and using crowd-sourcing on an open platform as an investigative tool in journalism focused on drug and arms trafficking. In 2016, frustrated with the lack of publicly available data, she began mapping every shooting in Rio de Janeiro. This effort turned into Fogo Cruzado, an open data platform on armed violence that is spreading to every major city in Brazil.
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March 3, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00am EST -
Speaker: Shalini Joshi, co-founder of Khabar Lahariya and Program Director at Meedan , a global technology non-profit (India) -
Speaker: Joel Abrams , Director of Digital Strategy and Outreach at The Conversation (US) -
This discussion will explore how CC licenses increase information sharing in global journalism. Speakers will share anecdotes from Meedan’s The Checklist , a weekly roundup of global misinformation news—open-source investigations, industry resources and event information. Discussion will also target The Conversation , a nonprofit network of 8 international news sites publishing hundreds of useful articles of news and analysis each week, all written by experts, in 4 languages, and all available under the Creative Commons license, CC-BY-ND.
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March 23, 2:00 pm-6:00 pm UTC/ 10:00 am-2:00 pm EDT -
Creative Commons staff will provide free training on the basics of copyright for journalists, how to best find and reuse openly licensed resources such as research, photos, videos, music and more! Come away from the training, understanding the flexibilities within copyright law that journalists can harness for better information sharing. Journalists will also gain the practical tools and resource lists to take advantage of open licensed content. All are welcome to join.
Join us for our Ground Truth in Open Internet series from January to March 2022 from wherever you are, as we explore what public, open options our news and media need, and how we can use these options.