Research & Verification for Digital Journalism Course
Build strong research and verification skills for digital journalism. Master vetting entities, following public funds, scrutinising data, and exposing fake images, videos, and documents to deliver solid investigations and reliable reports that stand up to scrutiny.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain key research and verification skills to probe claims, confirm entities, and examine public finance and procurement data confidently. This short course teaches you to cross-verify datasets, check digital content, assess sources, and create clear evidence trails, ensuring every story you publish is spot-on, properly backed, and easy to replicate in quick online news cycles.
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Develop skills
- Investigative planning: quickly turn hot claims into clear, verifiable questions.
- Entity verification: check companies, NGOs, and people using worldwide databases.
- Tracking public funds: follow budgets, contracts, and payments to actual beneficiaries.
- Data checking: tidy, align, and review datasets to spot financial irregularities.
- Digital forensics: authenticate images, videos, and files to counter false info.
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