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Fact-checking a story

Verifying every name, number, quote and claim in a story against reliable sources before it goes out.

Good work shows: Checks each claim against a primary source; confirms quotes with the person quoted; flags claims that cannot be verified.

Fact-checking a story is one of the media and communications skills on FinderK.

The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.

Job simulations

Edit the budget story before the vote

Desk editor at The Calder Valley Courier

About 70 minutes. Included in Plus.

A tired reporter has filed the council budget story six hours before deadline. Check every figure, decide what to do with a single anonymous allegation against a named councillor, get the right of reply right, and correct the record when a reader finds a flaw.

Skills: Fact-check figures and claims against original records; Present numbers correctly: percentages, points and like for like; Decide whether an anonymous allegation can be published; Give a named person a fair right of reply; Correct the record openly and precisely

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