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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.