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How can one cover a war with little or no access to it, and when information about it originates from media activists, pro-government media outlets, or Islamist fighters posting their versions of the story on social media platforms? How can that information be verified?  These questions are at the heart of this study. The war that they describe is the ongoing conflict in Syria, between the regime and the various groups fighting against it. Issues of verification are crucial, because social media and video-sharing sites have become essential tools for news coverage, especially when that news is breaking. Although this study focuses on Syria as an example, the methods that it explores for verifying user-generated content (UGC) are roughly the same no matter what the subject is.  There have been several related studies on the use of social media, such as the use of social media during the Arab Spring, but few have dealt with verifying user-generated content. For this study, I interviewed 11 journalists and editors from leading news organizations in Finland and Germany. In both countries, I included journalists from a leading newspaper (Helsingin Sanomat/Süddeutsche Zeitung), a central news agency (STT/DPA), and the main public broadcasting TV-channel (YLE/ZDF). The interviews were semi-structured.  Many of the journalists felt unhappy with the perceived forced dependence on social media in covering Syria. As I expected, most of them lacked knowledge of how to verify UGC with the help of existing online verification tools. None of the journalists had had any training in the verification of UGC. Although verification can often be done with more traditional methods, I believe that online verification tools make the process easier. I hope that this study will provide some useful ideas to media organizations, with regard to improving verification methods, and that it will act as a reminder of how important it is to pay proper attention to the verification of social media content.
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How journalists in Finland and Germany cover the first YouTube war
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