Earlier this month, on the same day Rolling Stone magazine issued an apology for errors in a jarring story about campus rape, a small newspaper [...]
During the G20 Summit in Australia in November, fact-checking organizations from the United States and six other countries, as well as FactCheckEU, collaborated in fact [...]
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As part of our efforts to expand and improve fact checking, the American Press Institute regularly presents tips on how media organizations around the country chase down [...]
When reporting on competing factual claims, journalists can call foul. Acting as a referee, journalists can analyze which statement squares with the evidence. But should [...]
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Before charging for digital content, doing research seems like good business. It can help publishers learn how particular audiences will react to a transition from [...]
When Eric Harris started at BuzzFeed, they were a six-person technology lab experimenting with how content was being shared. As the only “business” person then, [...]


