#BBC NEWS PODCAST TV#

On the difference between 'monitoring' and journalism в†‘ We have specialists specifically in Russia and the wider FSU, in Iran and the Middle East, and in China and the Koreas.В But what we have is this network also of 200+ journalists in our 13 bureaus around the world who are also listening into this sort of material on a day-to-day, minute-by-minute basis, and are able to really inform the sort of reporting that weвЂ™re doing.

#BBC NEWS PODCAST TV#

Rebecca: BBC Monitoring started just over 80 years ago now, and wasВ set up to listen into open source German radio propaganda at the beginning of the First World War.В And over the last 80 years has listened to Russian radio broadcasts to TV thatвЂ™s come from all over the world.В And very much itвЂ™s used to plugging into what primarily then were state narratives about the messaging that was trying to be used to form the way that people thought.В Sometimes at odds with the actual facts on the ground, shall we say?ДЄnd it was really felt that the BBC should be very much on the front foot as far as this was concerned, and that we should play a big part in combating that, in informing our viewers and our listeners and our readers about what it was, what it is, explaining how they can inform themselves toВ inoculate themselves against it to a certain extent.ДЄnd so Jamie Angus, whoвЂ™s Head of the World Service Group, came to Monitoring, went to the then director and said, вЂњYou guys are the people who have been listening into this for the last 80 years, would you be interested in forming a disinformation team?вЂќ And we of course were absolutely delighted to do that.ДЄnd just over two years ago, I formed a team.

On the evolution of news and disinformation monitoring | On the difference between 'monitoring' and journalism | On disinformation strategies around COVID-19В | OnВ when to challenge disinformation | On audiences' reaction to the BBC's anti-disinformation work On the evolution of news and disinformation monitoring в†‘ Listen to the episode: On Apple PodcastsВ | On SpotifyВ | On Google Podcasts The transcript Rebecca is currently a Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute. Our guest is Rebecca Skippage whoВ established and leads the BBC's Disinformation Team and is an Editor with the BBC-wide Anti-Disinformation Unit.

Our host is Meera Selva, Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme. What responsibilities does the BBC have to debunk disinformation and when does it consider it wise or appropriate to do so? And should debunking exist outside of the BBC's main news providing service or be an integral part of it? These are some of the questions we raise in our discussion. With the world-changing events of 2020 providing ample breeding grounds for the spread of disinformation, in this podcast we look at what one of the leading global broadcasters, the BBC, is doing to address this challenge.

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