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Staying Digitally Ahead : What about Credibility?
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Rashi Mishra
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Hello and welcome to Digital Media Conclave 2021, Day 3, organised by Digital Journalists Association of India. The panelists are Faye D'Souza, journalist and Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder Boom.
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Govindraj Ethiraj opens up the panel by discussing the credibility on news. "This is a very tough question. Somewhere we all start thinking we're credible in what we're doing. One might flip the question another way and ask what is not credibility," he says.
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"Opinion for one is not credibility. It may reflect a certain view or narration of facts. Popularity too, is not credibility, a lot of people confuse the two. They think that there is popularity in any brand, they automatically assume credibility," he adds.
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Govindraj Ethiraj on Fake News
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Faye D'Souza: "In India, we have forgotten what credible journalism sounds like. Journalism has been about questioning the government looking at what the issues are even if one person is suffering it's a story and that voice needs to be heard."
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Faye's latest on media credibility for Al Jazeera
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She emphasises that journalism has to necessarily fit into the non fiction category. Journalists are humans and human error is bound to happen. True credibility is to understand the mistake and rectify it.
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"Credibility is on the individual level, organisational level, media business level and government level," she observes.
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Ethiraj, while discussing on credibility in bigger organisations, says that the discussion of journalism, its impact and credibility are linked. "I think the day some of us lose the site of that, give in to temptation then we've lost that battle," he says.
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D'Souza adds that when one exists in a system for long enough, one starts to believe that this is the world. "When you work in a ecosystem, do good work together, I think that's the most important," she suggests.
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V. Prem Shanker, the moderator, moves the panel to discuss the credibility while telling stories through various streams.
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D'Souza answers that in television, the race of trying to be first puts an unhealthy pressure on the newsroom. In the era of Whatsapp it becomes the horror of horrors. Reporters actually pick up information from WhatsApp as source for news.
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Ethiraj emphasises that factchecking is a new thing. It started with the institutional phenomenon of fake news in the 2016 US elections. He further adds that it is difficult to say whether this phenomenon will continue in the same form throughout the world.
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The panel moves on to discuss the legitimacy of getting the maximum information in less words or time. The question of credibility in using such a method is raised.
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Will factchecking continue to be the same throughout the world?
Yes (100% | 1 vote)
 
No (0% | 0 votes)
 
Total Votes: 1
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"I think that with the internet, there are advantages on both sides with respect to space and time. The format is therefore not the enemy at all, but the intention and the reason for pushing information matters," D'Souza opines.
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Answering to Eithraj's question on the need for regulations and credibility, Shanker observes that at a micro level individuals stream on YouTube. Sensitive information is put on social media. This should not be the case.
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Talking on the freedom of speech and its regulation, D'Souza says that there is a law under sexual assault law to keep the identity of the victim private. The existing laws should also have a system of self-regulation. The grey area is now seeping in where self-regulation is not being followed.
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"Personally for me I think journalism has to be self-regulated. If we handle regulation to any government then we won't have free democracy," concludes D'Souza.
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That's all from today's session. Thank you for being with us.
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