Deadline: 16 September 2023
Lupa opens registration for the second edition of Mirante, a Fact-Checking Training Program for journalists and journalism students from the last year of graduation, from all over Brazil, who come from Brazilian peripheries and favelas, as well as as well as quilombola, riverside and indigenous areas.
The program aims to teach and promote the use of fact-checking tools, journalistic techniques to combat disinformation, fact-checking, monitoring of false content and distribution of verified content on digital platforms, in addition to media education actions focusing on the development of critical thinking.
The main objective is to train and perfect checking skills in order to bring qualified information to peripheral regions and news deserts.
Subject Content
- Each participant will:
- receive a certificate of completion;
- Learn about the three fundamental categories of checking: fact-checking, debunking e verification;
- Getting to know the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) and the main players in the world, as well as the code of ethics and conduct of verified members;
- Knowing Lupa’s methodology and checking processes;
- Know the classification labels and be able to reflect on the construction of its own methodology;
- Learn about the best way to deliver verified content;
- Becoming aware of how false information influences everyday life;
- Learn to use tools to identify fake news and images, as well as how to use social networks to verify distorted content;
- Analyze public databases;
- Simulate real-time check.
Duration
- The validity period of the program is four months, counting from the date of publication of the selected ones, in October 2023, expected to end in, on maximum, end of January 2024, with the publication of a final report with the productions of selected.
Eligibility Criteria
- To enroll in the program, the candidate must be:
- at least 18 (eighteen) years of age (completed by December 31, 2022),
- be a Brazilian citizen,
- born or naturalized, residing in the country and having available time to be present, virtually, throughout the program.
- The program will be free, with a focus on checking and journalism.
- The candidate must meet, cumulatively, the following requirements:
- Be approved in the selection of the Training Program;
- Be an individual;
- Having Registration Status in the regular CPF;
- Enjoy civil and political rights;
- Being even with electoral obligations;
- Be in full compliance with military obligations, in the case of a male candidate;
- Be free from disciplinary punishment, in the case of a university student;
- Public and private institutions can not apply, neither as entities nor through representation by a natural or legal person.
For more information, visit Lupa.
