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Philly mag’s head fact checker on Mike Daisey’s lies

Philadelphia magazine’s research editor, Annie Monjar, on the backlash against Mike Daisey and the importance of fact checking:.

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Chicago Public Radio to examine what went wrong with ‘This American Life’...

Current. org The leaders of Chicago Public Radio and “This American Life” will conduct an in-depth examination into why they had to retract perhaps the most popular episode in the show’s nearly...

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Does Fact-Checking Work? False Statements are Wrong Metric

Politics today seemingly has more fact-checking than ever before. As a result, reporters are asking a new question: Does fact-checking work? At the national level, USA Today's Martha T. Moore described...

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When Ads Blur the Truth, Will Coverage Fight Back?

NORTH CAROLINA — With the 2012 campaign coverage beginning in earnest, journalistic fact-checking efforts are getting underway in this key swing state. This week, The News & Observer of Raleigh...

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Ira Glass says ‘This American Life’ should fact-check David Sedaris stories

Mike Daisey | The Washington Post “This American Life” is considering fact-checking David Sedaris’ work for the program, Paul Farhi reports:.

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Lessons from Truth Goggles: ‘Trying to tell people what to think is a losing...

Slifty. com MIT grad student Dan Schultz shares some lessons from his effort to create virtual “Truth Goggles” — a browser plugin that shows a user “what is true and what is false on the web site you...

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#GEN2012: ‘Trolls’ can become an asset in data journalism projects

The creator of a data-driven fact-checking tool for the French presidential election says data journalists should welcome having their own work fact-checked by readers – and says “trolls” who question...

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Study: Wall Street Journal has used ‘job killer’ almost 3 times as often as...

University of Northern Iowa | PolitiFact | The Huffington Post Peter Dreier and Christopher R. Martin’s study about the term “job killer” takes the news media to task for letting a partisan talking...

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Are you sure that’s true? Truth Goggles tackles fishy claims at the moment of...

“The total unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino workers has increased from 10% to 10. 3%” between January 2009 and March 2012.

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Knight Foundation funds new projects for fact-checking and transparency

The Knight Foundation added to its investment in media on Monday, supporting five new innovation projects from startups and established media companies. The funding from Knight will go toward...

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Washington Post to develop TruthTeller for real-time fact checking

The application, which the Post hopes to make available to journalists at other news outlets, was awarded $50,000 by the Knight Foundation to help it get started.

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Washington Post’s TruthTeller project hopes to birth real-time fact-checking

Steven Ginsberg saw the future of fact-checking while listening to a politician tell lies in Iowa last summer.

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How do newspapers deal with politicians who go on repeating lies?

US presidential election campaigns are usually noteworthy for the dirt that candidates throw at each other, and the latest one is running true to form.

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Newsweek ditched its fact-checkers in 1996, then made a major error

“We, like other news organisations today, rely on our writers to submit factually accurate material,” Newsweek spokesman Andrew Kirk told Politico’s Dylan Byers.

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Why it’s better for fact-checking to be done in public

There’s been a lot of sound and fury this week about a Newsweek cover story written by Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, a piece that many critics — including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman —...

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Audit Notes: Newsweek standards, Luddite fallacy, crowdfunding scams

Paul Krugman asks: We know what Ferguson is going to do: he’s going to brazen it out, actually boasting about the deftness with which he misled his readers. But what is Newsweek going to do? Not much,...

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5 lessons from developing Settle It!, PolitiFact’s new fact-checking mobile app

For the past few months I’ve been working with PolitiFact founder and editor Bill Adair on a new fact-checking mobile app that just came out today for iPhone and Android.

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Time magazine fact-checking mistake shows value of fact-checking in public

Wednesday morning, I heard from two people who told me by email I had made a big mistake in my post, “Newsweek ditched its fact-checkers in 1996,… Read more.

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How to Live-Blog as a Team

Live-blogging is stressful. First, you need to find a reliable WiFi connection -- and a way to sustain your device's battery. Then, there's the challenge of transcribing a speaker's words in real-time....

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Fact-checking gets fact-checked

Fact-checking became a hot topic after Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention last week. Is fact-checking a trojan horse for left-wing partisans? Is it something members of the news...

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