Veriscope Academy
Forensic verification training for newsrooms and journalists
Practical, embedded programmes that help teams authenticate eyewitness media and build lasting verification workflows.
What Veriscope Academy does
Veriscope Academy trains journalists and newsrooms to handle eyewitness media with confidence.
Each programme is shaped around the team's actual output: stories in production, sources being assessed, content being verified in real time. The goal is to leave teams with durable skills, a shared framework, and tools they can use the next day.
If you believe that your newsroom will benefit from this training contact us.
Three pillars
Built around your workflow
Sessions are integrated into the working week, not added as a one-off lecture. Exercises draw from live or recently anonymised stories.
Tools + judgement
We cover the open-source toolkit, but the focus is on editorial judgment: when a source is good enough, when to escalate, and how to document the chain.
Authenticated from capture
The programme connects classic verification to the Amanah Protocol: footage captured on Veriscope Lens arrives already sealed, so teams can read provenance instead of rebuilding it.
What a team receives
- A tailored verification toolkit: a curated, annotated resource list chosen for the team's context.
- A team verification checklist: a practical protocol for assessing UGC, ready for daily use and onboarding.
- Session notes and resources: key learnings from each session for internal reference and sharing.
- A follow-up session: one review session after programme completion to address questions and assess what has stuck.
Who it is for
Veriscope Academy is designed for newsrooms, independent journalists and fact-checking organisations that handle eyewitness media in high-risk, fast-moving environments.
The programme is especially useful for teams working across multilingual regions, breaking news, or contexts where AI-generated and manipulated content is increasingly common.
Additional services
Guidelines and checklists to reuse internally
We help coordinate and build a verification team, with annotated tool lists, guidelines and best practices co-drafted with training participants, their editors and team leads.
Follow-up sessions after the programme
Dedicated sessions held 4 to 6 weeks after the programme closes, to review participants' progress, address outstanding questions and embed learnings.
About Veriscope
Veriscope is a media platform for reliable, newsworthy eyewitness footage. Our app, Veriscope Lens, gives eyewitnesses the tools to cryptographically capture, secure and sell the licence to use their footage to news organisations around the world.
Journalists can instantly discover and purchase authenticated footage on our Heatmap, all underpinned by the Amanah Protocol.