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Media experts share their advice on how to deal with fake news

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News coverage too often reports events without the historical context. Here we look at why understanding the past is essential to explaining the present.

Journalists can sometimes present an inaccurate or false version of events by trying too hard to 'balance' a story or incorrectly treating elements of a story as being roughly equal.

Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) refers to the use of digital tools such as spreadsheets, databases, and basic statistical analysis to interrogate large datasets.

Newsrooms committed to diversity, in terms of both staffing and coverage, must also deal with the psychological toll that discrimination takes on journalists.

Different news stories have a different value for your audience and for your business. Giving news items a 'weighting' can lead to impact and efficiencies.

Journalists working on a news website are responsible for publishing content on every device their users to turn to in order to access information.

The role of a journalist is to publish facts. To do that they often have to examine rumour and gossip as part of the newsgathering process.

"Fake news" encompasses two distinct concepts: fabricated stories masquerading as truth and the dismissal of legitimate news as false.

Journalism is often referred to as “the fourth estate”, and is seen as being crucial to the functioning of a healthy and fair society.

Can a journalist also be an activist for a cause without sacrificing their impartiality and compromising the core editorial values of journalism?