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A radiography of the state of digital media in 2013-2014 is presented, paying special attention to the situation in Spain, but with international references. Eleven main points are discussed: the crisis in print media, the rise of new media, digital strategies, canon Aede (aka the Google tax), mobile reading devices, brand journalism, data journalism, fact checking, multimedia storytelling, long-format journalism, and computer journalism.

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Radiography of the state of digital media in 2011-2012 paying special attention to the situation in Spain, but with references to the international situation. The main points are: the crisis of the media, pay-for-content, data journalism, fact checking, apps and products for reading devices, micromedia and crowdfunding.

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The present article analyses similarity and differences between academic and professional speech about “fact checking”, understanding it from a double perspective, both, like a competence that current journalists have to acquire, and a work field that offers new opportunities. The research is based on a bibliographical review about the fact checkers’ profiles. It also collects the opinion of seven university professors by means of a structured interview and has access to the student’s point of view through a close-response test and a categorical test (n=316). It also analyses the content of the data verification departments that exists in Spain with the aim of knowing which the most demanded competences are. The results reflect that the discussion is still open and at the same time it shows a coincidence between both speeches about the necessity of a journalist’ solid training that integrates new profiles.

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Two strategies are proposed for dealing with disinformation by using content curation, which we term “curating the truth” and “curating the lie.” The former is the traditional concept of content curation, which seeks to optimize existing content of value. The latter is a curation process linked to supporting the debunking of hoaxes, rumors, and falsehoods. These two strategies are exemplified through four cases of curation posts on Twitter. Various implications are discussed, such as the identification of and access to the sources of hoaxes or the cost of each strategy.