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    API continues conversations on the ethics of nonprofit funding in news

    Research from API shows that the ethics of taking grants from foundations and gifts from donors to produce news are not fully charted and not [...]

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    Finally, fact-checking is the new black

    It’s been seven years since PolitiFact won the Pulitzer Prize. Thirteen years since FactCheck.org launched. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker published its first fact-check in 2007. [...]

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    New research: People can learn from fact-checking, even when they don’t agree with the politics

    In one of the most fact-free elections in history that features two of the most mistrusted candidates in history, there may be a bit of [...]

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    When journalists get their info from social media, audiences find the reports less credible

    Press conferences, interviews, telephone calls — these are the traditional ways in which journalists source their stories. Today, however, many more options are available. From [...]

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    As news orgs drop comment sections, data shows users don’t think they’re that important

    NPR announced this week that it would discontinue story-page comments on Aug. 23, in favor of engaging with its readers in other spaces, such as [...]

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    How to avoid 10 common mistakes in data reporting

    After getting your hands on a data set, the hardest part of incorporating data analysis into your beat is getting started — and avoiding beginners’ [...]

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    Outsourced copy-editing doesn’t necessarily mean increased corrections

    Newspapers have explored a variety of options to keep costs down, but one possibility —  outsourced copy-editing — comes with a substantial fear that the [...]

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    Bringing diversity to the news industry: 5 good questions with Outlier Media’s Sarah Alvarez

    When it comes to diversity in news organizations, Sarah Alvarez is taking action. The Stanford JSK Journalism Fellow runs her own news organization, Outlier Media, [...]

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    The fact is, fact-checking can be better

    In our newsletter, “The Week in Fact-Checking,” we like to highlight the best fact checks we’ve seen around the world. Frankly, we’d like to honor [...]

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    4 kinds of stories you’re doing wrong without data

    Incorporating data into the daily newsroom grind can feel overwhelming, especially for smaller publications that may need to train writers on how to use data [...]

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