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About: Urvashi Kapoor is working as an Associate Editor with Jagran New Media and is associated with Vishvas News as a fact checker. Urvashi is a seasoned digital media professional with over a decade of experience. Urvashi believes in the power of digital media, honest journalism and wishes to live in a world free of misinformation.
Qualification:Urvashi is a postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communication and a post graduate in Commerce. Urvashi has also completed a program in ‘strategies for increasing reach & engagement of journalism’ from The Knight Center for Journalism from the University of Texas.
Certification: •Certified Google News Initiative fact-checking and news verification trainer
•Fellowshop on cross-border peace journalism by East-West Center, United States
•Fact Checking from Poynter University,
•Google Analytics and Digital Marketing from Google
•Data Journalism from East-West Center
•Countering State-based Covid-19 disinformation by CRDF-Global, Digital •Journalism from Reuters
•GDPR from Udemy
•Content discovery from Crowdtangle
•Storytelling and consumer engagement from Facebook Blueprint
• Data Journalism from East-West Center
Correction:
1: May 31
The story done by a team member (Employee ID PN0059) was updated on May 31 to remove an unnecessary paragraph which was not required in the story.
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