"This handbook seeks to provide an internationally-relevant model curriculum, open to adoption or adaptation, which responds to the emerging global problem of disinformation that confronts societies in general, and journalism in particular. Serving as a model curriculum, the publication is designed to give journalism educators and trainers a framework and lessons to help students and practitioners of journalism to navigate the issues associated with ‘fake news’. We also hope that it will be a useful guide for practising journalists. The contents draw together the input of leading international journalism educators, researchers and thinkers who are helping to update journalism method and practice to deal with the challenges of misinformation and disinformation. The lessons are contextual, theoretical and in the case of online verification, extremely practical." (Back cover)
Introduction / Cherilyn Ireton and Julie Posetti, 14
Using this handbook as a model curriculum / Julie Posetti, 26
1 Truth, trust and journalism: why it matters / Cherilyn Ireton, 32
2 Thinking about 'information disorder': formats of misinformation, disinformation, mal-information / Claire Wardle and Hossein Derakshan, 44
3 News industry transformation: digital technology, social platforms, and the spread of misinformation and disinformation / Julie Posetti, 57
4 Combatting disinformation and misinformation through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) / Magda Abu-Fadil, 73
5 Fact-checking 101 / Alexios Mantzarlis, 85
6 Social media verification: assesssing sources and visual content / Tom Trewinnard and Fergus Bell, 101
7 Combatting online abuse: when journalists and their sources are targeted / Julie Posetti, 115