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Articles tagged PolitiFact (45)

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 15, 2016

Clamping down on viral fake news, Facebook partners with sites like Snopes and adds new user reporting

A new system funnels fake news reports to fact-checkers from Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, ABC, and AP.

Shan WangDecember 5, 2016

Voice of San Diego is spearheading a team to help other smaller news outlets build membership programs

The centralized News Revenue Hub is helping a pilot group of five news organizations — Honolulu Civil Beat, InsideClimate News, The Lens, NJ Spotlight, and PolitiFact — with everything from technical installation to email targeting.

“No one ever corrected themselves on the basis of what we wrote”: A look at European fact-checking sites

Bill AdairJune 6, 2016

What happens when a 50-something journalist gets a week’s worth of news from Snapchat Discover?

The founder of PolitiFact finds distracting soundtracks and stale headlines, but also a fair amount of lively and effective content.

Tatiana Walk-MorrisApril 15, 2016

From Nieman Reports: The future of political fact-checking

“The key to the future of fact-checking is getting the fact-checks virtually instant and making it so the fact-check is presented on the medium that the claim is made on.”

Joseph LichtermanMarch 9, 2016

The Political TV Ad Archive is making it easier for journalists to report on campaign spots

The database run by the Internet Archive is collecting ads in 20 markets across eight states.

Joshua BentonFebruary 16, 2016

Brain food: Here are 15 smart people talking for 5 minutes each about journalism’s future

Smart people talking about building a startup culture, the value of small projects, the curse of expertise, and more.

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 22, 2016

A Howard project is debunking myths about African-Americans and teaching students fact-checking

“There are more black men in prison than college.” “A dollar spent in the black community stays there for only six hours.” A project at Howard University aims to dispel oft-repeated myths.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 26, 2015

“Learning to write again”: A Duke team tests a new way of reporting on New York City government

This summer, a team of students is testing whether a database-driven, structured journalism model can work well on topics like urban policing and Uber.

Jonathan StrayMarch 3, 2015

Take two steps back from journalism: What are the editorial products we’re not building?

“Imagine all the wildly different services you could deliver with a building full of writers and developers.”

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