New Delhi, Aug 2 (UNI) Facebook on Thursday announced a partnership with the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) to establish a Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship program in India.
"This scholarship program will support five students from ACJ across four chosen career specializations: Print, New Media, Radio and Television. To be eligible for the programme, applicants must be enrolled as graduate students and must be pursuing a degree in journalism," a statement said.
Sashi Kumar, Chairperson, Asian College of Journalism said, “We are happy to partner with the Facebook Journalism Project. We believe our students will benefit from this powerful initiative. It will provide valuable hands-on experience and the expertise to distinguish informative and trust-worthy news.”
The scholarship initiative is part of a commitment by the Facebook Journalism Project to support the next generation of journalists. By partnering with Asian College of Journalism, Facebook will be able to help train journalism students on fact-based and high integrity journalism in the digital age.
Facebook has also extended its existing partnership with BOOM Live, digital fact checking media organizations certified through the Poynter Institute, the International Fact-Checking Network, a global non-partisan organisation of fact-checkers. Following fact checking in English during the
Karnataka pilot stage, BOOM Live will now also provide fact checking capabilities in Hindi and Bengali, and will also fact-check photos and videos, in addition to article links.
“Just as the business of news is constantly changing, the skills and capabilities of our future journalists must also evolve,” said Campbell Brown, Facebook’s Global Head of News Partnerships. “Our association with ACJ reflects our commitment to support the journalism ecosystem by training future journalists. Through our partnership with BOOM Live we hope to encourage the systemic growth of fact-checking on all platforms. Taken together, they represent a step towards supporting
the future of reliable journalism around the world.”
“We are excited about expanding our partnership with Facebook and applying the learnings from the Karnataka pilot. We hope this will contribute to ongoing efforts to combat misinformation online,” said Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder, BOOM Live.
Facebook will continue to strengthen its work and partnerships around news literacy in India and extend it across local languages, partner newsrooms, journalists and fact checkers to build a more informed community.
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