Reshaping the News – Professor Fabienne Peter

Professor Fabienne Peter and a team of researchers are helping to rethink how journalism works in the digital age. Working with industry partners, they have developed a pioneering “co-creational” model of news media, where journalists collaborate directly with communities to produce trustworthy, inclusive reporting. This approach combines rigorous fact‑checking with public participation, offering a new way to rebuild trust in news and strengthen democratic debate.

Fabienne notes:

Social media platforms can facilitate the spread of false information, because false information tends to get shared much more widely. This has led to an environment for political debate that is polluted, inundated by low-quality contributions that aren't based on evidence and wouldn't survive fact-checking.