Digital Media Landscape: What Disinformation Means for your Business

Training Overview

Fact-checking is a skill no longer exclusive to journalists or researchers. It is a necessity for every consumer of online content. But what does disinformation mean for your business? How can company leaders, managers, and employees navigate the power and pitfalls of technology and social media in an increasingly volatile online environment?

This workshop aims to help participants learn about how disinformation spreads and operates. The 2-hour workshop will help companies understand how they can mitigate the risks involved and find practical ways to respond to this pressing problem. In this session, the following will be discussed:

Online landscape: Power and pitfalls of technology and social media
Definition of Terms and why it matters: Disinformation, Misinformation, Propaganda
Context for businesses given an upcoming major election in 2022
Practical tools and responses for companies to address disinformation (example: How does this impact organizational policy?)

Members

Use this ticket if your company is a member of AmCham Philippines.

Standard Price: ₱5,000 + 10% | $109.34
-For online payments through credit card or Paypal, with an additional tariff due to service charge.

Standard Price₱5,000

Standard Price$109.34

Non-Members

For non-member company of AmCham.

Standard Price: ₱6,000 + 10% | $131.20
-For online payments through credit card or Paypal, with an additional tariff due to service charge.

Standard Price₱6,000

Standard Price$131.20

Trainers

Maria A. Ressa (Invited)

President and CEO of Rappler

Gemma B. Mendoza

Head of Digital Strategy at Rappler

A journalist in Asia for 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler, the top digital-only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. As Rappler’s CEO and president, Maria has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government, forced to post bail ten times to stay free. Rappler’s battle for truth and democracy is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A Thousand Cuts.

For her courage and work on disinformation and ‘fake news,’ Maria was named Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year, was among its 100 Most Influential People of 2019, and has also been named one of Time’s Most Influential Women of the Century. She was also part of BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019 and Prospect magazine’s world’s top 50 thinkers. In 2020, she received the Journalist of the Year award, the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, the Most Resilient Journalist Award, the Tucholsky Prize, the Truth to Power Award, and the Four Freedoms Award.

Among many awards for her principled stance, she received the prestigious Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, the Knight International Journalism Award from the International Center for Journalists, the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University, the Columbia Journalism Award, the Free Media Pioneer Award from the International Press Institute, and the Sergei Magnitsky Award for Investigative Journalism.

Before founding Rappler, Maria focused on investigating terrorism in Southeast Asia. She opened and ran CNN’s Manila Bureau for nearly a decade before opening the network’s Jakarta Bureau, which she ran from 1995 to 2005. She wrote Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia and From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism.

Gemma Mendoza leads Rappler’s multi-pronged efforts to address disinformation in digital media, harnessing big data research, fact-checking, and community workshops. As one of Rappler’s pioneers who launched its Facebook page Move.PH in 2011, Gemma initiated strategic projects that connect journalism and data with citizen action, particularly in relation to elections, disasters, and other social concerns.

An AB History graduate at UP Diliman in 1994, Gemma started exploring the world wide web and data after a crash course on online publishing and research for Asian journalists at the Stockholm University in Sweden in 2004, when she was with Newsbreak magazine.

She first worked at the Philippine Senate for 5 years before turning to journalism, reporting for the magazine Critical Mass and its sister publication, CyberDyaryo in 2000. In January 2001, she joined Newsbreak as a researcher and writer, where she worked with investigative journalists who, like her, are now with Rappler. In 2006, she facilitated Newsbreak’s transition from print to digital as its online editor.

When Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN partnered with Newsbreak in 2008, Gemma became Deputy Editor for Systems and Research and later the Editor-in-chief of ABS-CBNNews.com, the news website of ABS-CBN. In this capacity, she played a key role in developing strategies that involved the convergence of the broadcast units with online and social media.

With Glenda M. Gloria and the late Aries Rufo, Gemma co-authored “The Enemy Within,” a book on military corruption and civilian neglect published by Newsbreak in 2011. Her stories related to governance & corruption, the security sector, disasters, and other social issues have won awards and recognition from various award-giving bodies, including the Jaime V Ongpin Awards for Investigative Journalism.

Data journalism projects she led at Rappler have been recognized at the Data Journalism Awards.

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