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Fictional case: auditing and correcting a silent edit
Silent edit correction case showing how a newsroom restores version history, repairs derivative copies, answers a reader, and builds an open corrections process.
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Practice Desk
Method, sequence and the decisions that shape news cod before anyone spends money.
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Newsroom correction workflow checklist, from flag to published fix
Newsroom correction checklist for intake, evidence review, severity, label selection, notice drafting, channel repair, audit records, and postmortems.
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Actor awards search: how to assess a claim
Actor awards search: check a claim against the body's published list, matching body, year, category, and result; say clearly when you cannot verify it.
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How to Write Newsroom Correction Notices and Publish Them
Learn how to write newsroom correction notices, publish fixes across channels, notify people harmed, and log approvals and channel confirmations.
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How to handle corrections and newsroom transparency after an error report
A practical guide to newsroom corrections and transparency: take error reports, log and verify them, choose labels, write notices, and repair every channel.
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Fictional case: correcting a crisis casualty count
Casualty count correction case showing how a newsroom fixes a merged disaster toll, updates every channel, explains source overlap, and changes its workflow.
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Rapid crisis verification checklist for the first hour
Rapid crisis verification checklist for authority, alerts, place, time, live media, casualty figures, protective instructions, update ownership, and corrections.
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How to verify an unfolding emergency claim
Emergency claim verification workflow for urgent alerts, jurisdiction checks, source callbacks, location, live media, public safety wording, and timed updates.
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How newsrooms verify breaking news and crisis claims with an incident ledger and five tracks
Breaking news and crisis claims: one incident ledger, consequence triage, authority mapping, alert fields, five verification tracks and reconciliation.
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Fictional case: how a newsroom corrects a false emergency report based on an impersonating voice
Fictional case: a newsroom corrects a false emergency alert based on an impersonating voice with correction wording, failed callback verification, and audit table.
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Synthetic media verification checklist for suspicious footage
Synthetic media verification checklist for claim framing, evidence preservation, source contact, provenance, context, forensic review, and publication controls.
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How to verify suspected AI images, video, and audio
A verifier's order of work for suspected AI media is to preserve the original file, confirm the person, check the event, then test the artifacts.
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Synthetic media verification for reporters: evidence lanes and bounded findings
A guide for reporters: define a synthetic media claim, preserve files, sort evidence into four lanes, use detectors cautiously, and publish a bounded finding.
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Fictional case: correcting a premature election winner claim
A fictional county race shows how incomplete unofficial returns produce a false winner call, and how a newsroom repairs headline, card and alerts.
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Election claim checklist: security, finance and polls
An election claim checklist for claims that are not about counted votes: campaign finance, security incidents, polls and court filings, with records to open.
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EPA Water Quality Reports: How to Verify a Local Utility's Boil-Water Notice
How to read a utility's consumer confidence report and SDWIS record to confirm or debunk a local boil-water or contamination claim, step by step.
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How to verify a political video before you share it: trace, then label
Trace a political video to its earliest upload, read the end card and campaign accounts, then pick an honest label: campaign, unattributed or unverified.
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How to Verify a Canadian Government Benefit Payment Date Claim
Match each federal benefit to CRA or Service Canada, check the official payment calendar, and treat unverified ATIP or political ads as unproven.
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How to Verify a Police Scanner Claim Before Publishing
Learn how to verify police scanner claim reports with dispatch logs, blotters, jail rosters and court dockets before publishing.
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How to Verify a US or Canadian Amber Alert Text Before You Forward It
How to check a US or Canadian Amber Alert text before forwarding: sender, official feeds, provincial coordinators, and the scam signals that fail every test.
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How to check a viral election claim: 12 verification steps
A 12-step workflow to check a viral election claim: preserve posts, find the jurisdiction, ask officials, verify media and numbers, and check court records.
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Election claim checking: a practical guide
Election claim checking starts with jurisdiction and count stage, then verifies results, campaign filings, lawsuits and official statements against records.
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Fictional case: correcting a complaint reported as a ruling
Court record correction case showing how a newsroom mistakes complaint allegations for a ruling, reconstructs the docket, rewrites the story, and fixes each surface.
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Weather and disaster reporting problems and fixes
Radar overclaims, stale warnings and merged authorities change what readers do, so each fix starts with naming the product and its issue time.
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Public document verification checklist before you quote it
Public document checklist for provenance, identity, type, status, version, completeness, authenticity, context, redactions, calculations, citation, and review.
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PACER vs State Court Dockets: Which Should You Check First?
PACER vs state court dockets decides where a case record lives and what it costs. Federal filings are centralized and paid; state lookups vary by county.
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Is That ATIP Response Real? How to Verify Access to Information Records
Learn how to verify access to information request records from Canadian federal and provincial portals. Check release letters, exemptions, and file numbers.
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Verify PACER Court Filing Screenshots: Check the PDF
To verify PACER court filing screenshots, compare the case number, filing date, judge, cited page, and current status with the live docket and filed document.
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How to Verify a Product Recall Claim Before You Report It
Verify product recall claim before you report it by checking CPSC, FDA and NHTSA records, not the press release. Questions and red flags for editors.
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School Board Meeting Claims: Check the Agenda and Minutes Before Sharing
School Board Meeting Claims: verify the agenda and minutes before you share. Texas and California open meetings deadlines, draft minute risks, and what to wait for.
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5 Checks for a State Bill Signing Claim Before You Report It
Verify bill signing claim with five checks against state legislature bill status pages, governor veto records, and official enacted laws databases online.
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Verify Student Loan Forgiveness Claim: Official Sources
To verify student loan forgiveness claim details, check named federal programs and laws, Federal Student Aid, and the state agency that administers the program.
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3 places to check a Chicago police scanner claim against city records
A Chicago police scanner claim needs three record sets to stand up: Cook County court dockets, City Council agendas, and CPD incident reports.
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How to request public records, step by step
Learn how to request public records step by step: name the office, the record series, the custodian, and the date range before you file.
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Is a TMZ clip real? Los Angeles celebrity claim verification
Los Angeles celebrity claim verification starts with the original TMZ upload, then checks video context, court access, local records, and source claims.
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How to verify a disaster claim with NOAA and FEMA data in Houston and Miami
Verify disaster claims with NOAA and FEMA records: hurricane advisories, storm reports and OpenFEMA declarations for Houston and Miami posts.
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How to check US election claims with FEC filings, county clerks, and state offices
Match each US election claim to its record: FEC filings for campaign money, county clerk pages for raw returns, state portals for certified totals.
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Government Records Verification: Status and Context
Government records verification checks provenance, status, version and context, then preserves the citation another reader needs to retrace a claim.
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Fictional case: correcting a retracted health study story
Retracted health study correction case showing how a coding error invalidates a result and how a newsroom repairs its headline, chart, archives, and social claims.
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Checking a 2027 warning-sign claim: how regional facts get mistaken for local ones
How to trace a claimed 2027 warning-sign requirement to the manual, state adoption notice or local plan behind it, and why regional records do not decide a single site.
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Fictional case: correcting a false survey trend and chart
Survey correction case showing how a newsroom finds an unsupported trend, checks margins of error and wording, repairs a chart, and publishes a complete correction.
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Fictional case: correcting a fake emergency-agency account
Emergency-account correction case tracing a lookalike profile, false evacuation claim, unsafe link, newsroom alert error, public repair, and prevention controls.
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Fictional case: correcting an old flood video labeled as current
Flood video correction case tracing an old clip through reposts, geolocation, shadow and construction clues, source contact, publication repair, and prevention.
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Fictional case: correcting a circular citation that became a fact
Circular citation correction case showing how one unsupported claim spread across reports, passed weak checks, and required a transparent article-wide repair.
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Account and viral-claim verification checklist
Account and viral-claim checklist for preservation, identity, control, badges, origin, reposts, links, evidence, coordination, safety, publication, and correction.
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How to audit a poll or survey story before you cite it
Poll audit workflow for sponsor, population, sample, recruitment, fieldwork, questions, weighting, uncertainty, subgroup comparisons, headlines, and corrections.
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How to check an unfamiliar account and viral post
Use independent contact routes, platform history, reverse-image tools, and primary records to verify a social media account and viral post before sharing.
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How to verify an online source: a framework
Use this framework to verify an online source: identify its publisher, read laterally, trace key evidence, and record what remains unresolved.
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A visual geolocation workflow for place and time
This visual geolocation workflow shows how to match a photo or clip to a place, narrow its date, and report what the evidence can and cannot support.
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How to audit a clinical study story before it runs
Audit a clinical study story by pulling the paper, protocol and registry record, then checking every claim, number and quote against the data.
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Image and video verification checklist for the desk
Image and video verification checklist for preservation, source identity, origin, metadata, location, time, editing, provenance, safety, credit, and publication.
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Image and video verification: a practical guide
Image and video verification means separating origin, place, time and edit into distinct claims, then testing each against records before you publish.
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Science health news verification: a practical guide
Science health news verification: trace a claim through the paper, trial record, supplement, correction notice and FDA product record before repeating it.
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Science and health story sign-off checklist for editors
A science and health story sign-off checklist for editors: test the draft wording, regulator terms, evidence base and visuals before a health claim runs.
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Source and claim verification checklist for reporters
Source and claim verification checklist for scope, origin, authority, evidence, independence, quotations, numbers, conflicts, response, wording, and corrections.
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Source evaluation guide: mapping claims
This source evaluation guide shows how to split compound claims, test evidence by claim type, trace images and records, and judge source authority.
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Chart verification checklist: the reviewer's sign-off
A chart verification checklist for the person who signs off: what the reviewer receives, reproduces and checks before a chart, caption and headline go out.
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Statistics Verification Guide: A Reading Framework
This statistics verification guide offers a framework for tracing figures, judging uncertainty, reviewing surveys, and checking what charts support.