Consider the following sentence: Their may be some mistakes, but we are the ones to place you’re trust with. No news organization would print this [...]
A new report on misinformation in media is critical of the role journalists play in spreading misinformation, either by carelessly repeating it or purposely ignoring it. [...]
The San Diego businessman was looking for funding for his tech startup – not particularly unusual in California. But when A. Latham Staples began dropping [...]
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 [...]
The American Press Institute has received grants totaling $200,000 for additional support of API’s political fact-checking and accountability journalism program. The program began in early [...]
What happens when students with an eye on careers as politicians and government officials enter the world of journalism? This semester, students in political science [...]
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 [...]
A fake news story that claimed the legal drinking age in the U.S. would soon change to 25 began appearing on social media early this [...]
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