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The Washington Post’s popular weekly column, “What was fake on the Internet this week,” ended Friday after 19 months of debunking stories about new Oreo [...]

When the American Press Institute launched its fact-checking project in early 2014, we quickly began to understand that some people didn’t understand. The meaning of [...]

Journalists can use Twitter in many different ways. They can reveal personal details or maintain a purely professional profile. They can interact with their followers [...]

When I hear about bots, or software designed to act like humans on social networks, the first thing that pops into my mind is automated [...]

Although change is inevitable, some innovations are easier for newsrooms to adopt than others. How change fares has much to do with how the innovation [...]

Pursuing a story in a foreign area can be complicated and dangerous. Enter “fixers,” local people who for years have been helping journalists and other [...]

Evidence-based recommendations for journalists In this summary of her research, Emily Thorson of George Washington University offers recommendations to journalists who write about public policy issues. [...]

What causes some stories to catch fire on social media while others fall flat? Is it determined by indefinable qualities, or are there some elements [...]

The National Geographic Channel in June released an ambitious project that took eight months to complete: a (very bloody) hands-on, boots-on examination of what it [...]

The Coral Project aims to change how publishers, contributors and readers think about interacting in online communities — and it wants to do so with anyone [...]