Standards of Quality Journalism
Infographic: Seven Standards of Quality Journalism. News Literacy Project, January 2020, https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/PracticingQualityJournalism-2020.pdf
Fact Checking Organizations and Websites
- FactCheck.org
According to their website mission page, FactCheck.org says, "We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."
- Politifact
Politifact is a nonprofit that serves the public through fact checking journalism. They provide scores for the accuracy of public statements.
- Snopes
Snopes is arguably the best known website for fact checking. It provides detailed information about the truth of news stories, and shared media of all sorts. Users can submit items to be fact checked by Snopes.
- Washington Post Fact Checker
The award winning column in the Washington Post whose team fact checks all sources of media and information.
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Media Bias Fact Check offers fact checking and media bias reports for over 4,200 media sources and journalists.
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Fact or Opinion Video
CTRL-F. (2021, June 11). Fact or Opinion? [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/S_oUecaHoKU?si=vwzKzJMbX3tRBhZ0
Evaluating Sources
Determining the credibility of resources can be a difficult task.
The SIFT method is helpful for sorting through what is credible and what is not credible.
SIFT is a method for evaluating sources that was developed by Mike Caulfield who describes the SIFT method as "a short list of things to do when looking at a source,"
You can access more information about his method here: Sift: the Four Moves.