When most people think of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, they think of exotic species, from giant tortoises to blue-footed boobies. There are more than a hundred volcanic islands in this archipelago, a living laboratory for scientists and a “bucket list” destination for tourists from all over the world. [Read more…]
Practicing journalism in the Galapagos, where “hyper-local” meets “hyper-sensitive”
InformaCam App Will Help Verify Citizen Journalism Content
Many viral shots of the first 24 hours of Hurricane Sandy turned out to be fake. Somehow we missed detecting that one right away. Citizen journalism yields a lot of incredible stuff, but kinks still exist (only human, right?). According to the Nieman Lab, the human rights organization Witness is creating an app that hopes to make it easier to nab the fake videos, photos, and audio people share from mobile devices. The InformaCam app “would bring metadata to the forefront, allowing journalists, human rights organizations, and others to better identify the origins of a photo or video.”