The Chicago guide to fact-checking

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Title
"The Chicago guide to fact-checking"
Statement of Responsibility
Brooke Borel
Publisher
  • The University of Chicago Press
  • 2nd ed
Publication Year
  • 2023
Book size
22 cm
Series Name / No
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "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 challe

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