Can Publishers Use Metadata to Regain the Public’s Trust in Visual Journalism?

1 · The New York Times · Jan. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.
The News Provenance Project has been exploring how news organizations might contribute to the fight against misinformation by adding context.Illustration by Jinhwa Jang“The thing about photos is that they carry with them a lot of credibility. Someone took a picture of something! The fact that you can have a genuine photograph, but the way it’s being used is bogus — that’s interesting.”These are the words of Roger (not his real name), an avid newspaper reader and TV news watcher who also keeps up...