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fact-checking
A laurel to The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta
For calling on reporters to repeat the truth as often as needed, and showing how to do it
By Greg Marx Aug 17, 2012 at 03:43 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Garance Franke-Ruta of The Atlantic, whose astute web piece “What to Do With Political... More
A laurel to FlackCheck.org
For its new guide to video factchecking on air and online
By Greg Marx Sep 14, 2012 at 05:50 PM
The recent journalistic debate about factchecking has prompted some compelling discussion about different strategies, different methods, and what works... More
Audit Notes: Journal Register, Clinton and ‘can’t find workers,’ AP flop
The bankrupt company’s owner isn’t doing well itself
By Ryan Chittum Sep 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Read Martin Langeveld's super-sharp take for the Nieman Lab on what the Journal Register bankruptcy means and what might be... More
Fact Checking the Fact Checkers
PolitiFact is half right on two State of the Union truth-o-meters
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Commenter James asked me to take a look at a couple of verdicts from PolitiFact on the State of the... More
Fact-checking at The New Yorker
An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines
By Peter Canby Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Last month, Columbia Journalism Review Books and Columbia University Press released The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor... More
Fact-checking at The New Yorker
An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines
By Peter Canby Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Last month, Columbia Journalism Review Books and Columbia University Press released The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor... More
Factchecking enters ‘Conversation’ in Oz
How an Australian news site is taking a new approach to the format
By Brendan Nyhan Jul 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Australia has suddenly become a hotbed for political factchecking. In May, PolitiFact Australia launched as the first international affiliate of... More
Fast-tracking the truth in IPAB coverage
How to cover a key ACA provision without making misinformation worse
By Brendan Nyhan Jan 14, 2013 at 11:15 AM
One of the most underrated political stories of the next year is the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (also... More
Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey
A classy confession doesn’t negate the crime
By Lawrence Pintak Mar 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Over the weekend, as just about anyone with electricity knows by now, the public radio program This American Life fell... More
Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record
For a strong ad factcheck, and for grappling with campaigns’ message control
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 27, 2012 at 03:10 PM
Jay Jones has already heaped praise this week upon the Las Vegas Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, but we’ll go ahead... More
Letters Man
Why the letters-to-the-editor section shouldn’t become a forum for flacks
By John Stoehr Dec 23, 2011 at 02:07 PM
In May 2011, the alt-weekly New Haven Advocate, which I edit, ran a story about the rising cost of rent... More
Medicare ‘bankruptcy’: CNN gets it right
The network fact-checks a frequent talking point, and does it well
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 11, 2012 at 07:10 AM
Hooray for CNN.com, for fact checking the often-heard claim of Medicare’s “impending” bankruptcy. CNN’s contribution sets a high bar, and... More
Nine Lives of a Disputed Fact
A Politico op-ed fails the fact-checking test
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 16, 2012 at 03:45 PM
The other day, Politico published an opinion piece arguing that Americans should be “extremely anxious about the outcome” of the... More
Schmidle in Secret
New Yorker keeps mum on fact-checking process for bin Laden piece
By Craig Silverman Aug 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Amid the discussion and debate about the sourcing and accuracy of Nicholas Schmidle’s lengthy retelling of the Bin Laden raid... More
The AP Falls For a Bogus Press Release
No excuse for that silly mistake but points for cleaning up the mess
By Ryan Chittum Apr 13, 2011 at 01:59 PM
Henry Blodget wants to know if we're going to blast the Associated Press for falling for a hoax press release... More
The Big Lie of the Crisis, Called Out By the Press
The false “banks didn’t do it” meme takes hold on the right, as Romney showed last night
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2011 at 05:33 PM
At CNBC's GOP debate last night, Mitt Romney showed that he, like Michael Bloomberg, buys into the Big Lie of... More
The Bloodying of PolitiFact
What is Medicare, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 6, 2012 at 01:48 PM
Now it’s my turn to weigh in on the “Lie of the Year,” the gimmick PolitiFact uses to highlight the... More
The debate: Some healthcare ‘facts’ that
shouldn’t stand
Reporters did good fact checking, but also left falsehoods on the table
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2012 at 03:00 PM
There was no shortage of media fact checking after last week’s presidential debate, much of it focused on healthcare, much... More
The Facts of the Mike Daisey Matter
And why they matter
By Christopher Solomon Mar 19, 2012 at 05:26 PM
It’s been a tough winter for facts, and for those of us who wrangle them for a living. On Friday,... More
The Truth about Public Untruths
Are journalists and others equipped to beat back the lies?
By Craig Silverman Dec 2, 2011 at 01:13 PM
What’s to be done with lying liars and the lies they tell journalists and the public? This is a topic... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
