10th May 2019
By Tom Law

Reporting from the Front Lines of the Information Wars

From the Columbia Journalism Review website:

GOOD JOURNALISM IS NO LONGER SUFFICIENT to combat the assault on truth and democracy. Media companies are striving to counter the threat of information warfare by working in new and different ways, and to respond to the ethics challenges posed by this struggle.

CJR held The Disinformation War, a one-day conference on May 9, sponsored by CJR, the Poynter Institute, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and the Newmark Centers at Columbia Journalism School and the Poynter Institute.

Journalists—including The Daily Beast editor Noah Shachtman, the Tow Center’s Emily Bell, NPR media correspondent and host of NPR’s On Point David Folkenflik, and founder and CEO of Rappler Maria Ressa—discussed building credibility in the era of liars and leaks. We dissected case studies with Poynter’s Kelly McBride and standards editors including The New York Times’ Philip Corbett. Watch below to better prepare for the future with insights from researchers, security experts, and big tech companies.