Introduction Media fact-checking has become a fact of life for political professionals, especially at the national level and in places where local news organizations have [...]
Members of Congress cited national media fact-checks 80 times in floor speeches and debates from 2013 to 2014 — and Republicans referred to fact-checkers [...]
Most newsrooms’ early efforts to referee political communication focused on the content of political advertising. During election seasons, just trying to keep up with those [...]
Of the various ways to respond to critical fact checks, perhaps the easiest is to simply modify or even drop a faulty message. But the [...]
Politicians talk about fact-checking — a lot. But “you don’t have to take my word for it,” as Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington once [...]
Even before PolitiFact’s Lou Jacobson contacted a congressional press secretary back in 2010, the spokesman’s boss had accumulated a disappointing series of low scores on [...]
As audiences gain more choices for news, they are increasingly turning to specialized sources. That represents a challenge to general-interest publishers but also creates an [...]
What you’re ultimately doing with a single-subject news site — to go back to the very beginning — is creating obsessives and superfans. “Cultivating many [...]
“Create obsessives,” digital director of Vanity Fair Mike Hogan said when I asked him about why Vanity Fair built a Hollywood-specific section. Successful single-subject news [...]
After the first step in building a niche vertical of identifying the topic, which involves assessing your audience, your brand, your capacity and the potential [...]
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