Responsibility of Reporting in a Misinformation Age

As the era of delivering everything in a snap of second has made life in a urgent situation to be handled. Where the role of the responsible reporter is not just to present half truth or misinformation or any manipulated views to the public but it's about delivering facts and necessary voices and news that empower citizen voices. In a age were breaking news breaks every minute it's becoming very difficult to identify and verify that information whether it is true or false.

Misinformation refers to miss leading content that is spread intentionally or unintentionally through social or digital or traditional media. It is a fact based report by the Reuters Institute that 64% of the news consumed by the world is false or miss leading news either it is presented online or in traditional media methods. There is a very basic example of covid-19 where during the pandemic there was miss information spread that drinking bleach cures Covid, but that's a very normal call to verify news and guard your health because such news causes panic and sometimes violence. It also creates confusion distrust in the people towards the media and it also has the capability to spread faster due to social media apps without checking the facts.

Journalist are the one who are more than news presenter. Public regard them as truth seekers and public watch dogs. A basic journalism course teaches the students to clarify the difference between the facts or opinions and it also guide us to verify sources and fat check and even cross check with your credible sources before reporting. As people they don't this consume the news they start at violently or dangerously regarding the news. Even one small mispronunciations or false news delivered can harm there reputation and their career.

There are always ways to check whether the news is verified or not and there are some credible and noncredible sources to identify the news and methods to check the news or picture and these are as followings:

1. There are few verification tools such as Google lens where you can search for the picture to check its credibility.

2. Even you have the tools such as keyword search to verify the content that leads you to the prominent news.

3. Date, time and location are most important tool to verify the news and its very quick easy and handy.

4. Invid is a powerful tool to search for the videos that are being circulated and it is verified through origins and context and possible manipulations of video content.

Fact checking always built a good connection between the media and the readers. It also opens the gate of empowerment among the individual by providing them the correct information that helps them in future building and decision making. It also helps public to stay aware about the public policy that can guide them with abundance of their right. Journalism has always been about responsibility, ethics and coverage and let's not drive against from our motive. Their pen can calm nation or ignite panic so every reporter or journalist must only report the verified content to educate and restore public interest.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published,

Everything else is public relation.

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