About: Abhishek Parashar is working as Deputy Editor at Jagran New Media and is associated with Vishvas News as a Fact-Checker. He has around 9 years of experience in digital media. His total experience in journalism is more than 12 years. He has previously worked with Press Trust of India (PTI-Bhasha), Business Standard (Hindi), The Economic Times, Catch News (Rajsthan Patrika), and News Nation Digital. Abhishek is a certified Google News Initiative (GNI) fact-checking and news verification trainer. He has been working as a trainer at ‘Sack ke Sathi’ which is the media literacy campaign against fake news/misinformation. He has expertise in data analysis and has spent half of his career as a business journalist.

Qualification: He is a Post Graduate of Journalism and Mass Communication from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi. Graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication from Delhi University.

Certification: •He is a certified Google News Initiative fact-checking and news verification trainer.
• The certificate is awarded as a participant in the India Data Portal Workshop organized by the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business.
- Crowdtangle training and Hands-on Fact-Checking: A Short Course – Poynter University’s eLearning course.
• Introduction to Digital Journalism By Reuters.
• Crowdtangle For Instagram: How To Use City To Make Your IG Pop and First Draft Training
• Vaccine Insight Flexible Learning Course.- Attended several other workshops on the subject organized by IFCN, GNI, Facebook, Crowdtangle, and ICFJ.
• He has completed the Data Journalism, Verification, Election, and Introduction to machine learning courses in the Google News Training Centre.