Abstract
This chapter sets out to discuss the impact of fake news on Indo-Pacific communities. In the first section it notes that media literacy is a problem across much of the region. In the second section it discusses the scale of the problem using interviews with working journalists in the Indo-Pacific to capture how they are increasingly using verification techniques, before looking at moderation and training of citizens, to illustrate how reporting techniques are adapting during the twenty-first century. We argue that greater fact-checking and verification training of journalists in the Indo-Pacific is needed, and while we acknowledge that public education in media is vital, we demonstrate how professional journalists can play a part in the solution.
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Wake, A., Ambrose, D., Grenfell, D. (2024). Fact-Checking and Verification: The Changing Role of Professional Journalists. In: Wake, A. (eds) Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47571-9_8
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