For Margo Gontar, a Ukrainian living in Kiev, music is “essential like breathing.” She holds a graduate degree from the Mohyla School of Journalism in [...]
Thursday, June 12 The un-facts and the unfactual would get a new nemesis under a proposed international fact-checking organization — a group born out of [...]
When I was a kid in school, I watched the Channel One News program on old, wall-mounted TVs that turned on automatically during homeroom. But [...]
In the world of fact-checking, a phenomenon sometimes known as “the backfire effect” can flummox a journalist who’s worked diligently to develop an airtight fact-check. Many [...]
“In the end, I think that fact checking prevents the spread of disinformation, [keeping it] from being worse than what it could be.” — Dr. [...]
John Maeda’s work has crossed many disciplines — design, technology and business — and now, he works at the intersection of all three. Former president [...]
The Los Angeles Times just redesigned their site with a focus on mobile and a goal of increasing reader engagement through pre-written tweets or “sharelines,” [...]
For journalists, there’s one thing that might be worse than getting a fact wrong: getting the fact-checking wrong. What’s the best way to infuse solid fact-checking into [...]
A fellowship program at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs recruits subject-matter experts – from scientists and lawyers to economists and cyber-experts [...]
Images & Voices of Hope (ivoh) is a 15-year-old nonprofit organization that highlights how media can foster change and healing in communities. It defines “media” broadly — to [...]


