One of the greatest strengths of the fact-checking community is its commitment to collaboration and knowledge-sharing across borders. Such was the case last week when Miriam Valverde, a fact-checker covering immigration for (Poynter-owned) PolitiFact (and Daniel’s colleague), traveled to La Paz, Bolivia, to teach fact-checking skills to journalists. Organized by the nonprofit Fundación para el […]

Look past the ‘optics’ of Mueller testimony, news website traffic plateaus, and please explain why a source was not available

How to decide which ideas to pursue, do statewide investigations with partners, and the freelancer’s struggle to get paid

Letting journalists plan your events, advice columns are great for engagement, and keep your subscription options simple

How to develop products for audience needs, European lessons for engaged journalism, and what unpaid contributor models might support

GateHouse-Gannett merger talks, how necessary is your journalism, and can local news blossom again in Youngstown

In this newsletter, we spend a lot of time highlighting how misinformation is a global problem. To that end, fact-checkers and others are trying to promote more media literacy worldwide — and some of those efforts are quite fun. In the past few years, several games aimed at teaching people fact-checking skills and how to spot […]

How journalists can work with historians, can podcasts be listener-supported, and should journalists decide what is ‘racist’

How to get reader feedback every day, what worries young journalists, and why you should think more about the power of nostalgia

How to investigate on Facebook, how one state created funding for local news, and when discount subscriptions may backfire