Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News

Make an Accuracy Checklist a part of your reporting process. Here are some good one you can use:

• Accuracy checklists via Craig Silverman , author of Regret the Error
• Steve Buttry’s Expanded Version of Craig Silverman’s Accuracy Checklist
• The NPR Accuracy Checklist
• Accuracy Checklist for Journalists, Reynolds Center for Business Journalism
• Accuracy tips from E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
• Accuracy tip sheet from Mathew Lee, as part of the Knight Citizen News Network

Politics related fact-checking guides:

• 7 steps to better fact-checking, Politifact
• Fact-checking resources: A guide to finding reliable answers to timely questions, American Press Institute