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Dr Sudhakar Reddy Udumula Editor Investigation, TOI, Hyderabad Google news initiative organized Poll Check 2023 by Google news initiative led by Data leads at St. Mary’s College, Yousufguda, Hyderabad on 8th September 2023, for all the journalists of Telangana state. The training session was aimed at combating misinformation and effective reportage ahead of the state assembly…

DataLeads, an India-based digital media company, revised and re-branded its existing health initiative Health Analytics Asia as HealthLeads. This is a multimedia health site with a niche focus on hard data, fact-checking, and health community engagement. The platform has been re-developed to cater to the fast-changing trends in the health sector and bring together the voices of doctors, healthcare professionals, researchers, and fact-checkers to make health-related content available for all. The aim of the HealthLeads platform is to bring the global health community together through collaboration and conversation. A panel of doctors are a part of HealthLeads’ editorial board and will be reviewing the content for its accuracy and relevance. They will play a pivotal role in setting the content agenda tailored to the needs of its readers. HealthLeads will also serve as a platform for developing and hosting pressing and significant events to bring the rigor of informed analysis and intelligent debate vis-a-vis health on international forums.

DataLeads established Health Analytics Asia in the year 2019 and based on the reader feedback and candid conversations with readers over the last three years, it was identified that a sense of community in the healthcare space is something that professionals aspire for. Hence, DataLeads decided to review its existing health model and launched HealthLeads, a place where people can come together to exchange ideas, seek and share credible information, encourage scientific discussions, and essentially inspire hope in what may seem like a hopeless time.

Syed Nazakat, founder and an award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur, shares his thoughts about re-launching HealthLeads, “Last year, I asked my team members to join me for a two-day long design thinking workshop. The aim was not to arrive at definitive solutions but to stimulate discussions and brainstorm new ideas for our health platform. At the end of the workshop, one thing was clear to most of us that we need to solve problems and create and provide information in a format that is actually helpful to people. Second, there was wider agreement in the team that we need to engage our readers and community more strongly. Collaboration is particularly important when it comes to subjects such as health where doctors and healthcare professionals are important players to provide people with accurate and timely information. Summing up all these thoughts, we launched the platform HealthLeads.”

Going forward HealthLeads will be hosting scientific publications and research papers, long-form reports to series of conversations with prominent thought leaders as well as doctors across verticals, who are doing inspiring work. We will be collaborating and partnering with various doctors and scientists for editorial planning to envision a different future for our information spaces, habits, institutions, and culture.

DataLeads is a digital media and information company aimed to help people understand and engage with the world around them. Its work spectrum ranges from training, data analysis, fact-checking initiatives, media research, and media development initiatives. 

Wan-Ifra, in association with DataLeads and supported by the Google News Initiative, is pleased to offer a virtual 4-module journalism training program on election reporting and verification for journalists in South Asia. In this webinar, participants will learn to protect their passwords, secure phones, and build better awareness of resources.

This training's main objective is to help journalists use tools and techniques while verifying news during their coverage of the elections. And, this webinar is being offered separately in English and Bangla languages.

Nowadays, journalists are increasingly vulnerable to digital threats and misrepresentation, especially during elections. At election time, journalists become easy targets of digital impersonation and fraudulent news. Therefore, journalists need to learn how to keep themselves and their sources digitally safe and secured.

Wan-Ifra webinar dates and timing

The webinar will start on 7 April 2021 and will continue on 8, 12, 15 April 2021 between 11.30 am and 1:00 pm IST in English and between 3 pm and 4.30 pm IST in Bangla. The participants of Wan-Ifra webinar will be newsroom editors, chief of staff, senior reporters, and journalists who want to know more about election coverage, reporting, and verification processes.

The referents of this webinar include Sonia Bhaskar, Head of TV and Web Synergy, NDTV, India; Sambit Pal, Assistant Professor, IIMC Dhenkenal; Varadarajan Ananthakrishnan, Resident Editor, DataLEADS; Joydeep Das Gupta, Editor, News Sense.