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Recorded Nov. 3, 2016
Nobody wants to make a mistake in a story, yet a few errors can slip past our best efforts. Fact checking is especially critical for freelancers as our credibility depends on filing accurate stories – even if magazines have fact-checkers, do you really want to send in a story with misnamed drugs or misspelled sources? Or, if you find your patient interviews from online discussion groups, you’ll need to make certain they actually have the disease you’re writing about.
This 30-minute webcast led by author and freelancer Brooke Borel, author of the recently-published, “The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking” will provide step-by-step tips on how to check your story for errors, how to annotate your stories for a checker, materials you need and when to start annotating. Independent journalist and AHCJ board member Jeanne Erdmann will moderate the discussion.
How to participate in the webcast
Click here and a new window will open. Choose the option to “Enter as a Guest” and type in your name. Click on the “Enter Room” button.
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This is a webcast exclusively for AHCJ members, so you will need your website username and password. If you don’t have that you can use the one-click login by entering your email address on file.
A link to the webcast will appear on this page about 15 minutes before it begins. If you’re one of the first 50 who log in to the webcast, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a copy of Borel’s recently published book “The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking.”
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About the speaker
Brooke Borel is a contributing editor at Popular Science and a 2016 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. She has written for the Guardian, the Atlantic, BuzzFeed News, PBS’s NOVA Next, and Undark, among others, and her books include “Infested” and “The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking.”
