Origin Verified News Publishers List

The International Press Telecommunications Council, in conjunction with Project Origin, has established a working group to create and manage a C2PA compatible list of verified news publishers. The first participants in the Verified News Publisher list  include the BBC and CBC/Radio Canada, and we are working with many other media organisations to bring them on board.

The open C2PA 2.0 Content Credentials standard for media provenance is widely supported as a strong defence against misinformation. Recent announcements by OpenAI, Meta, Google and others have confirmed the value of an interoperable, tamper-evident way of confirming the source and technical integrity of digital media content.

Project Origin, as a co-founder of the C2PA, has brought the needs of the news publishing community to the forefront of the creation of this standard. This now includes the creation of a C2PA 2.0 compatible Origin Verified Publisher Certificate to be used by publishers to securely create a cryptographic seal on their content. The signing certificates will be available through the IPTC, who will work with C2PA validators to gain widespread acceptance. These signing certificates will be issued by the IPTC to broadcast, print and digital native media publishers.

Origin Verified Publisher Certificates will ensure that the identity of established news organisations are protected from imposters. The certificates confirm organisational identity and do not make any judgement on editorial position. Liaison agreements with other groups in the media ecosystem will be used to accelerate the distribution of certificates.

The initial implementation uses TruePic as a certificate authority, with the BBC and CBC/Radio-Canada as trial participants.

We are currently in the process of adding the next set of news publishers to be added in Phase 1 of our project, which was launched at IBC in September 2024. If your news organisation would like to be involved, please fill out the Expression of Interest form. 

The Verified News Publishers List is available as a JSON document:

https://www.iptc.org/verified-news-publishers-list/verified-news-publishers-list.json

Information on the format of the JSON file

Origin Verified News Publishers List certificates in PEM format:

https://www.iptc.org/verified-news-publishers-list/verified-news-publishers-list.pem