Empowering the Truth Global Summit

Journalists, fact-checkers and students from across the world will stop what they are doing every Thursday in March to focus on a big and pressing challenge: How to disseminate reliable, trustworthy content in innovative ways that outpace misinformation?

Expert trainers will lead 2-hour virtual training sessions for participants as part of ICFJ's second annual Empowering the Truth Global Summit. Sessions will be held in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Due to demand, there were two different series of English sessions, one held at Eastern Standard Time and the other held at Indian Standard Time.  
 

The Eastern Time sessions are as follows:

• March 7, 11am ET: Building networks and alliances
  Laura Zommer, Cofounder and CEO, Factchequeado and ICFJ Knight Fellow 
   
• March 14, 11am ET: Reaching critical audiences 
  Hannah Ajakaiye, Director, FactsMatterNG
   
• March 21, 11am ET: Strengthening audience trust
  Lynn Walsh, Assistant Director, Trusting News
   
• March 28, 11am ET: Leveraging AI
  Nikita Roy, ICFJ Knight Fellow and Founder, NRI Nation

The Indian Standard Time sessions are as follows:

• March 7, 5pm IST: Building networks and alliances
  Rajneil Kamath, Newschecker 
   
• March 14, 5pm IST: Reaching critical audiences 
  Sudipto Mondal, Executive Editor of The News Minute
   
• March 21, 5pm IST: Strengthening audience trust
  Dr. Masato Kajimoto, Professor of Journalism, Hong Kong University
   
• March 28, 5pm IST: Leveraging AI
  Ritvvij Parrikh, Sr. Director of Product at The Times of India

The summit kicked off in March with each language hosting one session per week.

Following the summit, participants who attended at least three of the four sessions will be eligible to apply for grants and mentorship to develop innovative multimedia projects that break new ground in spreading factual information.

The trainings were held through ICFJ’s Pamela Howard Forum on Global Crisis Reporting, with support from the Forum's community managers and additional coordination from BoomLive, Harry Surjadi, and Marina Chentsova Eckman.

 

watch recordings of the English Summit (Eastern TimE)
 

WATCH RECORDINGS OF THE English Summit (Indian standard TimE)

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Empowering the Truth is part of Disarming Disinformation, run by ICFJ with lead funding from the Scripps Howard Foundation, an affiliate organization of the Scripps Howard Fund, which supports The E.W. Scripps Company’s charitable efforts. The three-year project will empower journalists and journalism students to fight disinformation.