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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-37
Verifying Images, Videos and Audio Messages
For: Journalists, fact-checkers, community radio presenters, monitoring officers and content moderators.
Learning outcomes
- Analyse the authenticity and context of an image or video.
- Place footage in space and time through geolocation and chronolocation.
- Verify an audio message or content in a national language.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Verifying images: reverse search, metadata, authenticity and original context. |
| Week 2 | Verifying videos: geolocation and chronolocation, in a virtual lab. |
| Week 3 | Audio messages and content in national languages: transcription, translation, verification. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: time-limited verification of images, videos and audio messages provided by the instructor. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation in a virtual lab, assessed against a rubric (70%): time-limited verifications; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). The content verified is provided by the instructor: no private individual is implicated.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: AI-Generated Content
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-37C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Signs of AI-generated content; detection tools.
- Limitations of detection and how to explain them to the public.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Professional experience in news or communication, assessed on application; everyday use of a computer and a phone. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Journalism, within a period set by the certificate regulations.