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About: Urvashi is a Senior Editor at Jagran New Media. She is also part of the Google News Initiative India training network and a highly regarded fact-checking and media literacy trainer. Her contributions to journalism have earned her several accolades, notably the esteemed '40 Under 40 in English Journalism' award. She was part of a fellowship focusing on cross-border issues of mutual concern from the East-West Center. She is a fact-checker and leads the flagship, internationally awarded, media literacy series ‘Sach Ke Sathi’ at Vishvas News.
Qualification:She is a post-graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication and holds another postgraduate degree in Commerce. She has also successfully completed a program on 'Strategies for Increasing Reach & Engagement of Journalism' from The Knight Center for Journalism at 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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