People spend less time thinking about your failures than you do. Learn what you need to learn from your mistakes but don’t spend too much time dwelling on what others will think about you now that you made that mistake. Chances are, they forgot.
As a part of our series about “the 5 steps we can take to win back trust in journalism” I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Alexios Mantzarlis.
Alexios Mantzarlis is the News and Information Credibility Lead at Google News Lab. He helps coordinate Google’s efforts to fight misinformation across both partnerships and product, with a particular concentration on fact-checking. Prior to joining Google, he was the founding director of the International Fact-Checking Network and Managing Director of Pagella Politica. As Director of the IFCN, he helped draft the fact-checkers’ code of principles and shepherded a seminal partnership between fact-checkers and Facebook. He has been a member of the European Union’s High Level Expert Group on fake news and online disinformation. His publications include a draft lesson plan for UNESCO, a chapter on fact-checking in the 2016 U.S…