As a follow-up to our article: “Is Wikipedia information verified and safe? “, Jérôme de Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) asks us: “ The information of West France are they verified and secure? » Well Jerome, West France answers you.
Today, our regional press daily has around 780 press cards, that is to say 780 journalists trained to produce verified information. For written content to be reliable, the sources used must be verified and therefore compared. Multiple sources are needed. Jean-Bernard Cazalets, deputy editor-in-chief at West Franceexplained in our live video on fake news: “We cannot be satisfied with a single source when we are faced with information. We must increase contacts, including contradictory ones. »
Once written, the article resulting from this source is proofread by other journalists. This is where its spelling, like the reliability of its information, is checked again, in order to avoid any possible error.
Charters to direct journalists
In our live broadcast, it was explained by our journalist, Camille Da Silva, that “everyone has the tools to disseminate information, but not everyone is professional.” Therefore, it is important to seek information from the media ” serious “ whose articles are written by trained and qualified journalists.
Moreover, in addition to being trained to provide reliable information, each journalist is governed by several texts, such as the Charter of Professional Ethics for Journalists, the Munich Declaration or the Federation's Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists. international of journalists. He does not have the right, for example, to disclose false information.
Find information independently
In the interest of quality, at West France : “We rarely use Agence France Presse (AFP)”explained Jean-Bernard Cazalets. Because where many media could be content to disclose the information given by AFP dispatches or other agencies, our editorial staff is composed “journalists specialized in all fields”allowing the newspaper to be independent in terms of information.
Jean-Bernard Cazalets also spoke of the President of the Republic's desire to create a system to combat false information: “The States General of Information”. It should be done via a method “media and information education”in schools, but also at all ages.
