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| Author | : Brooke Borel |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2016-09-30 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 022629093X |
Why we fact-check -- What we fact-check -- How we fact-check -- Checking different types of facts -- Sourcing -- Record keeping -- Test your skills -- Appendix one: "Test your skills" answer key -- Appendix two: Suggested reading and listening
| Author | : Lucas Graves |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2016-09-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0231542224 |
Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Cited across social and national news media, these verdicts can rattle a political campaign and send the White House press corps scrambling. Yet fact-checking is a fraught kind of journalism, one that challenges reporters' traditional roles as objective observers and places them at the center of white-hot, real-time debates. As these journalists are the first to admit, in a hyperpartisan world, facts can easily slip into fiction, and decisions about which claims to investigate and how to judge them are frequently denounced as unfair play. Deciding What's True draws on Lucas Graves's unique access to the members of the newsrooms leading this movement. Graves vividly recounts the routines of journalists at three of these hyperconnected, technologically innovative organizations and what informs their approach to a story. Graves also plots a compelling, personality-driven history of the fact-checking movement and its recent evolution from the blogosphere, reflecting on its revolutionary remaking of journalistic ethics and practice. His book demonstrates the ways these rising organizations depend on professional networks and media partnerships yet have also made inroads with the academic and philanthropic worlds. These networks have become a vital source of influence as fact-checking spreads around the world.
| Author | : Matt Palumbo |
| Publisher | : Liberatio Protocol |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2023-07-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1637588216 |
Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? An industry that started in the 1990s by fact-checking chain emails and Bigfoot sightings has evolved over the past decade into the American political left’s strongest tool in justifying the censorship of their political opposition and shaping the national narrative in their favor. There may have been a brief era where the fact-checkers fact-checked facts—now they fact-check reality itself.
| Author | : Lucas Graves |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Etik |
| ISBN | : 9780231175074 |
Over the past decade, fact-checking outlets have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Deciding What's True recounts the routines of the journalists at these innovative news organizations and plots a compelling, personality-driven history of the fact-checking movement and its recent evolution.
| Author | : Sarah Harrison Smith |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004-08-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0385721064 |
These days fact-checking can seem like a lost art. The Fact Checker's Bible arrives not a moment too soon: it is the first—and essential—guide to the important but increasingly neglected task of checking facts, whatever their source. We are all overwhelmed with information that claims to be factual, but even the most punctilious researcher, writer, and journalist can sometimes get it wrong, so checking facts has become a more pressing task. Now Sarah Harrison Smith, former New Yorker fact checker and currently head of checking for The New York Times Magazine explains exactly how to: *Reading for accuracy *Determine what to check *Research the facts *Assess sources: people, newspapers and magazines, books, the Internet, etc. *Check quotations *Understand the legal liabilities *Look out for and avoid the dangers of plagiarism For everyone from students to journalists to editors, the methods and practices outlined in The Fact Checker’s Bible provide both a standard and a working manual for how to get the facts right.
| Author | : Meredith Wadman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2018-09-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0143111310 |
"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times “Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—Nature The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Sweden, produced safe, clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against rubella and other common childhood diseases. Two years later, in the midst of a devastating German measles epidemic, his colleague developed the vaccine that would one day wipe out homegrown rubella. The rubella vaccine and others made with those fetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States, the vast majority of them preschoolers. The new cells and the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio, rabies, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis A, shingles and adenovirus. Meredith Wadman’s masterful account recovers not only the science of this urgent race, but also the political roadblocks that nearly stopped the scientists. She describes the terrible dilemmas of pregnant women exposed to German measles and recounts testing on infants, prisoners, orphans, and the intellectually disabled, which was common in the era. These events take place at the dawn of the battle over using human fetal tissue in research, during the arrival of big commerce in campus labs, and as huge changes take place in the laws and practices governing who “owns” research cells and the profits made from biological inventions. It is also the story of yet one more unrecognized woman whose cells have been used to save countless lives. With another frightening virus--measles--on the rise today, no medical story could have more human drama, impact, or urgency than The Vaccine Race.
| Author | : John D'Agata |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2019-08-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1529404630 |
NOW A BROADWAY PLAY STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE 'Provocative, maddening and compulsively readable' Maggie Nelson In 2003, American essayist John D'Agata wrote a piece for Harper's about Las Vegas's alarmingly high suicide rate, after a sixteen-year-old boy had thrown himself from the top of the Stratosphere Tower. The article he delivered, 'What Happens There', was rejected by the magazine for inaccuracies. But it was soon picked up by another, who assigned it a fact checker: their fresh-faced intern, and recent Harvard graduate, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment, and beyond the essay's eventual publication in the magazine, was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D'Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction. This book includes an early draft of D'Agata's essay, along with D'Agata and Fingal's extensive discussion around the text. The Lifespan of a Fact is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between 'truth' and 'accuracy', and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other. 'A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be' Lydia Davis
| Author | : Brooke Borel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : Internet research |
| ISBN | : 9780226817897 |
"Over the past few years, fact-checking has been widely touted as a corrective to the spread of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda through the media. While political fact-checkers focus on the claims of public figures, their editorial counterparts check stories being readied for publication for a wide range of errors, from inaccurate names and dates to false quotations and misleading descriptions and interpretations of data. If journalism is a cornerstone of democracy, says author Brooke Borel, then fact-checking is its building inspector. In this second edition of her guide to the why, what, and how of editorial fact-checking, Borel covers the evolving media landscape, with new guidance on checking audio and video sources, polling data, and sensitive subjects such as trauma and abuse. She has expanded the sections on working with writers, editors, and producers and added new material on getting fact-checking gigs as well as new exercises. And she addresses the challenges of fact-checking in a world where social media, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse are making it increasingly difficult for everyone--including fact-checkers--to identify false information. But the answer, she says, is for everyone to approach information with skepticism--to learn to think like a fact-checker"--
| Author | : Viet-Phuong La |
| Publisher | : VnZone |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
"Fact Check Handbook: Navigating the Truth in the Age of Misinformation" is a comprehensive guide that equips readers with the tools and knowledge to navigate the complex landscape of information and combat the spread of misinformation. In an era where misinformation has significant consequences, this book empowers individuals to become savvy fact-checkers. The book begins by highlighting the importance of fact-checking and the detrimental impact of misinformation on society. It then dives into the fundamental aspects of reliable sources, teaching readers how to evaluate source credibility and identify reputable news outlets. Readers learn effective research techniques, from utilizing search engines to navigating databases and fact-checking organizations. "Fact Check Handbook" provides a step-by-step fact-checking process, enabling readers to verify information and cross-reference sources for consistency. It equips them with the necessary tools and resources to conduct thorough fact-checking investigations. Readers learn to spot misinformation by recognizing common types, identifying red flags, and detecting logical fallacies. The book addresses fact-checking in different contexts, including politics, health claims, and scientific information. It delves into the impact of social media on the spread of misinformation and provides strategies for fact-checking in the digital age. Readers gain insights into navigating platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as combating echo chambers and filter bubbles. Ethical considerations are emphasized throughout the book, highlighting the importance of transparency, fairness, and minimizing biases in fact-checking. Readers understand the ethical foundations necessary to ensure the integrity and credibility of their fact-checking efforts. "Fact Check Handbook" emphasizes the significance of effectively communicating fact-checking findings. It offers strategies for clear and engaging presentation of results, including impactful communication techniques and the influence of fact-checking on public discourse. The book also explores the role of critical thinking in fact-checking and provides exercises and activities to enhance critical thinking skills. In the concluding chapters, the book recaps key takeaways and empowers readers to take charge as informed fact-checkers. By providing readers with the necessary tools, knowledge, and critical thinking skills, "Fact Check Handbook" equips them to navigate the truth, combat misinformation, and contribute to a more informed and trustworthy information ecosystem.
| Author | : Jen Birks |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Pivot |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-11-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9783030305727 |
This timely book examines the role of fact-checking journalism within political policy debates, and its potential contribution to public engagement. Understanding facts not to operate in a political vacuum, the book argues for a wide remit for fact-checking journalism beyond empirically-checkable facts, to include the causal relationships and predictions that form part of wider political arguments and are central to electoral pledges. Whilst these statements cannot be proven or disproven, fact-checking can, and sometimes does, ask pertinent critical questions about the premises of those claims and arguments. The analysis centres on the three dedicated national British fact-checkers during the UK’s 2017 snap general election, including their activity and engagement on Twitter. The book also makes a close political discourse and argumentation analysis of three key issue debates in flagship reporting from Channel 4 News and the BBC.
