When covering an election, journalists choose a mix of two basic types of reporting — “voter guide” pieces that examine the issue positions and values [...]
The 2016 presidential election has been marked by several head-spinning “firsts” — people and practices not seen in the history of U.S. politics. One of [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If a fact-check falls into a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Apologies for the old trope, [...]
At American Press Institute we have the benefit of building upon the work of the Newspaper Association of America’s Foundation, with which API merged with [...]
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 [...]
Most people who studied journalism or communication at a broad selection of schools across the United States believe that fact-checking journalism — a relatively new [...]
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