In our third episode of our four-part podcast series, Covid-19 for Journalists, Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is joined by Jane Godia, Capacity Building Manager, Africa, for WAN-IFRA’s Women in News; Motunrayo Joel, Africa Checks’ Nigeria deputy editor, and Paul Bradshaw, BBC data journalist and Associate Professor at Birmingham City University.
We talk about the differences between fact-checking and verification, how newsrooms are fact-checking world leaders like Donald Trump, and the need for media literacy alongside technological responses to misinformation.
