How are Latin American fact-checkers paying for their work? Grants, events, services and crowdfunding
External fact-checking is growing in general and in Latin America in particular, but paying for…
August 24, 2016
Funding for fact-checking
Australia’s ABC Fact Check fighting for survival
Reduced funding at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is likely to cause the termination of its…
May 3, 2016
A new website in Brazil wants to fact-check the Olympics
With the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro less than six months away, a…
February 17, 2016
Why do fact-checking sites close? And how can new ones avoid that fate?
Most people would instinctively reply "money" and "get more money" to the questions in the…
January 6, 2016
2016 will be the year of automated, weaponized and outsourced fact-checking
In the U.S. and elsewhere, 2016 holds great potential for fact-checkers, and not merely in…
December 16, 2015
Why PolitiFact’s partnership with NBC News is a big deal
PolitiFact and NBC News announced on Sunday a broad partnership to "fact-check the 2016 election."…
December 14, 2015
Crowdfunding for fact-checking: lessons from Full Fact
Crowdfunding has become a decent line of revenue for fact-checking websites. The new Brazilian fact-checking…
October 30, 2015
What can fact-checkers learn from Storyful’s business model?
Screen shot, Storyful Last week I wondered out loud whether verification would kill fact-checking. While…
October 29, 2015
Introducing Poynter’s International Fact-checking Network
Today marks the online launch of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter. This informal…
October 21, 2015
Will verification kill fact-checking?
Verification should be an intrinsic value of journalism. Yet the move towards ever-shorter news cycles…
October 21, 2015
How much baloney? Fact-checking the Canadian elections
There was the one on the effects of marijuana, or the one about greenhouse gas…
October 19, 2015