About: Abhishek Parashar is working as an Associate Editor at Jagran New Media and associated with Vishvas News as a fact-checker. He has around 8 years of experience in digital media. His total experience in journalism is more than 10 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 trained Fact-Check Trainer and he has been working as a trainer at ‘Sack ke Sathi’ which is the media literacy campaign against fake news/misinformation.

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

Certification: • 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 attended a 5-day Fact-Check and News Verification training conducted by a Google certified trainer.
• He has completed the Data Journalism, Verification, Election, and Introduction to machine learning courses in the Google News Training Centre.