Truth is not enough - journalism now needs more than facts |
When was the last time a piece of journalism genuinely changed your mind about something?
Not just confirm what you already thought or made you nod along. Actually shifted your opinion.
It's a harder question than it sounds. And it gets to the heart of something that a group of journalists, fact-checkers, lawyers and editors were wrestling with at a roundtable on information integrity at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia last week. Underneath all the challenges, there was a shared conviction: our work matters, we just need to get a lot better at explaining why.
Let's start with a story that stopped the room. A fact-checker working........