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Weekly bulletin 19 Nov. 2019 Featured on IJNet Fact-Checking and Verification Q&A with Craig Silverman: Misinformation, deepfakes and democracy by  Sunaina Kumar Nov 14, 2019 Data Journalism Data visualizations can be misleading, but here's what you can do by  Corinne Podger Nov 15, 2019 Audience Engagement Want to draw attention to a story? Use these advertising techniques. by  Gretel Müller Nov 12, 2019 Investigative Journalism Tips for freelance investigative journalists by  Rowan Philp Nov 11, 2019 Audience Engagement El Tímpano will test text message distribution to reach immigrant communities by  Madeleine Bair Nov 13, 2019 Read more articles Journalists in Tunisia + UAE can apply for free webinars! Journalists in Tunisia and UAE can attend online trainings on data journalism and immersive storytelling from Google News Initiative + IJNet Arabic...

Need to Know Monday, November 25, 2019 Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard . . . Apple News, Facebook, Google, SmartNews: More tech platforms are  starting to pay publishers for their content  (Digiday) . . . but did you know: ‘Any hope that scale-based platform products might deliver meaningful or consistent revenue for publishers has disappeared’  (Columbia Journalism Review) A new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism on the  evolving relationship between tech platforms and publishers  has marked 2018 as “the end of an era.” Moving into 2019, publishers are no longer willing to overhaul parts of their business to fall in line with platform maneuvers, write the authors. “Last year, we observed strong signals that publishers were looking to bring audiences back to their own properties over ‘social-first’ publishing. In 2019, the trend gained moment...

t As the goes that anyone that taste life most taste death, a sad news from the ACDHRS announces the demise of Uganda Human Rights Commissioner. The message reads: "We at the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) in Banjul, The Gambia are deeply saddened by the news of the passing away of our colleague Med Kaggwa. Mr. Med Kaggwa was a qualified Lawyer and also the Chairperson of Uganda Human Rights Commission, Former Commissioner and Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and a Commissioner of the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission. He was a skilled and conscientious legal practitioner with nearly 30 years in the promotion of constitutionalism, good governance, rule of law and respect for human rights. He has also been a Member of Parliament in both the national and sub-regional Parliaments, a Member of the Constituent Assembly that dr...

To view this email as a web page, click  here. In Libya, Peace is Possible if Foreign Interference Ends In an interview with USIP, Mohamed Syala, the foreign minister of the Government of National Accord, expressed his concern that Russia could turn the tide of Libya’s civil war. If foreign powers ceased their involvement in Libya, the protracted civil war could come to an end quickly, he said. Read the interview Will a Prisoner Swap with the Taliban Push the Afghan Peace Process Forward? In a move that could revive the peace process, the Afghan government and Taliban completed a prisoner exchange that had been announced last week but then delayed. USIP’s  Scott Worden  discusses how the prisoner exchange and the unresolved presidential election could impact the peace process. Read the Q&A ...