New Delhi (EFE).- The president of EFE, Gabriela Cañas, highlighted this Wednesday in New Delhi the importance of international news agencies and their work against hoaxes, in an act before hundreds of students from the Indian Institute of Communication Masses (IIMC), the largest journalism school in India.
Cañas, who is in this Asian giant on a five-day official visit that will end on Friday, stressed to the IIMC students the value of agency journalists in offering “contrasted and verified” information, with “facts well told.” as a basis for a “solvent opinion”.
The IIMC, which has an internship agreement with EFE, has almost 600 postgraduate students spread over campuses in six regions of India, so it broadcast the event live so that students in other cities could follow the presentation.
Cañas defended before these future journalists the verification work of EFE against hoaxes and false news.
“The work we do to defuse these lies is really journalistic, what we do is simply work on that issue and investigate to find out if the data is indeed real,” said the Spanish journalist.
But the problem of hoaxes “complicates” when technological means are used to manipulate videos and images, he pointed out, for which reason EFE collaborates with universities to “teach active journalists how to detect that a video or photo is manipulated.” a difficult process that requires further training.
EFE in India
Before the audience, Cañas also underlined EFE’s interest in entering the Indian market, a country of 1,300 million inhabitants with thousands of media, and where it already has a collaboration agreement with the Indian agency PTI.
For this, “one of our ambitions is to strengthen our service in English,” said Cañas, who wanted to remind the students that to be part of an international agency like EFE it is not necessary to belong to the Hispanic world.
“To be a journalist at EFE, you don’t have to be Spanish, or even speak Spanish, because we have services in other languages, and as I have mentioned here, the service in English is very important for us, especially in this part of the world,” Cañas remarked. .
As part of this expansion in the Asian giant, EFE also has scholarship programs in India with the Cervantes Institute and the Journalism School of the University of Delhi.
