Fighting disinformation from the University. Fact-checking workshops in Journalism subjects

Abstract

Journalism is going through difficult times to defend its role as gatekeeper of fake news. Perhaps, its next challenge will be to focus on the future communication professionals, today still university students. Promote active methodologies, applicable to the real case in university classrooms, prepare students to detect disinformation, hoaxes and lies, and especially, focus on how to prepare the news by inserting the marks of informative quality (contrast of sources, use of background, contextualization, explanation and interpretation of the facts, in addition to an informative language) and combat the risks in a necessary digital scenario.