The Week in Fact-Checking: Tips for holding a fact-checking event

Holding a session on fact-checking — for journalists, universities or community members — can be a great way to share your knowledge, gain exposure or raise revenue for your organization. Want to try it? The American Press Institute sponsored three fact-checking “boot camps” earlier this year, and has compiled tips and materials from each to help you get started. Read more on API’s website.

Quote of the week
“Unless they want to be accused of bias, journalists must pretend that the objective truth is always the precise midpoint between the Democrats’ and Republicans’ positions based on the premise that the parties are equally extreme, equally dishonest, and equally guilty of all other political sins.” — Justin Buchler on ‘the journalist’s dilemma’

Fact-checking the 2016 elections
Understandably, it’s difficult to remember that the presidential election isn’t the only game in town this year. So here’s a change of scenery: Verbatim, the fact-checking project of Ballotpedia, fact-checks the environmental records of Maryland’s congressional candidates.

Vote for fact-checking
You’ve got one more week to vote in The Webby Awards, the “Oscars of the Internet.” FactCheck.org is a nominee in the “Best Political Blog/Website” category. Cast a ballot.

Fact-checker of the week: FactCheckNI
Almost 20 years have gone by since the Good Friday Agreement put an end to the worst of the sectarian violence that blighted Northern Ireland. Yet barriers remain, both physical and intangible. A new website in Northern Ireland hopes fact-checking will be a tool for reconciliation: Read about FactCheckNI on Poynter.

Fact check of the week
Has the UK paid the EU half a trillion pounds since 1973? That number ignores the rebate, this entertaining video by the academic project “The UK in a Changing Europe” explains.

 

Quick fact-checking news
(1) Chequeado is dabbling in investigation: Its recent uncovering of 3 million Argentine pesos-worth of illicit funding to Mauricio Macri’s presidential campaign made quite a splash (2) If you missed the International Journalism Festival, you can watch the panel on fact-checking here. (3) If you want to look at social media verification from a practical point of view, it doesn’t get better than this guide by First Draft News (4) Tech & Check and the future of automated fact-checking is discussed on Wired Italy.

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