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}oth the survey and the interviews show that verifying and fact checking is acommon alue in the three participating countries. As one Tunisian student puts it, ‘to provide redible information is not an option, but a moral obligation and a job requirement’ Interviewee 23). Another expresses that journalism is not ‘only collecting and trans- erring information, it is above all verification and checking of facts’ (Interviewee 32).  Still, there are differences in the way they perceive the notion of facts and how to ise them. Connected to a belief in pure objectivity is a faith in letting the facts speak or themselves. Although Thomas Hanitzsch (2007:377f) correctly emphasizes that elieving in facts versus analysis is not the same as believing in objectivity, there could till be a connection. In the survey we connected facts and context and asked: “What lo you think is most important when making a news report/news article?’   do you think is most important when making a news report/news article?’  Comments: The question was posed ‘What do you think is most important when making a news report/news article?’ The numbers of respondents were 99 (Tunisia), 202 (Bangladesh) and 133 (Norway).

Figure 3 }oth the survey and the interviews show that verifying and fact checking is acommon alue in the three participating countries. As one Tunisian student puts it, ‘to provide redible information is not an option, but a moral obligation and a job requirement’ Interviewee 23). Another expresses that journalism is not ‘only collecting and trans- erring information, it is above all verification and checking of facts’ (Interviewee 32). Still, there are differences in the way they perceive the notion of facts and how to ise them. Connected to a belief in pure objectivity is a faith in letting the facts speak or themselves. Although Thomas Hanitzsch (2007:377f) correctly emphasizes that elieving in facts versus analysis is not the same as believing in objectivity, there could till be a connection. In the survey we connected facts and context and asked: “What lo you think is most important when making a news report/news article?’ do you think is most important when making a news report/news article?’ Comments: The question was posed ‘What do you think is most important when making a news report/news article?’ The numbers of respondents were 99 (Tunisia), 202 (Bangladesh) and 133 (Norway).