HOW TO ANNOTATE ANYTHING FOR FACT-CHECKING
In this guide, Wudan Yan — journalist, fact-checker, and founder of Factual — has taken her experience from over a decade of fact-checking and distilled her expertise on how to best work with a fact-checker via this guide.
Anyone using this document will learn best practices on how to annotate different elements of a narrative nonfiction piece for a fact-checker.
Not only will this guide help reporters and other writers annotate stories well for fact-checkers, but it will encourage reporters to develop good habits for tracking sourcing, organizing notes, and beyond.
Who this guide can benefit:
Reporters, authors, podcasters, documentary film producers who want to improve how they annotate drafts for sources.
Nonfiction or journalism instructors who wish to teach best-practices for bulletproofing your reporting to students.
Newsrooms, magazines, production networks, podcasts who want to set standards on how they prefer their creators to best annotate their work for fact-checkers.
Organizations that don’t use fact-checkers and ask creators to “fact-check themselves” by annotating their work in a way that someone else can independently follow their sourcing.
The guide has been vetted and reviewed by other veteran fact-checkers and is available as a PDF download.
Please note: The pricing for this guide is intended for individual use only — meaning if you are a freelancer, or a creative working on solo projects (such as books), you’re in the right place!
However, if you are a professor, managing editor or supervising producer in charge of fact-checking who wishes to purchase this guide for your classroom or organization, please contact work.factual@gmail.com to inquire about pricing and a license.
In this guide, Wudan Yan — journalist, fact-checker, and founder of Factual — has taken her experience from over a decade of fact-checking and distilled her expertise on how to best work with a fact-checker via this guide.
Anyone using this document will learn best practices on how to annotate different elements of a narrative nonfiction piece for a fact-checker.
Not only will this guide help reporters and other writers annotate stories well for fact-checkers, but it will encourage reporters to develop good habits for tracking sourcing, organizing notes, and beyond.
Who this guide can benefit:
Reporters, authors, podcasters, documentary film producers who want to improve how they annotate drafts for sources.
Nonfiction or journalism instructors who wish to teach best-practices for bulletproofing your reporting to students.
Newsrooms, magazines, production networks, podcasts who want to set standards on how they prefer their creators to best annotate their work for fact-checkers.
Organizations that don’t use fact-checkers and ask creators to “fact-check themselves” by annotating their work in a way that someone else can independently follow their sourcing.
The guide has been vetted and reviewed by other veteran fact-checkers and is available as a PDF download.
Please note: The pricing for this guide is intended for individual use only — meaning if you are a freelancer, or a creative working on solo projects (such as books), you’re in the right place!
However, if you are a professor, managing editor or supervising producer in charge of fact-checking who wishes to purchase this guide for your classroom or organization, please contact work.factual@gmail.com to inquire about pricing and a license.
In this guide, Wudan Yan — journalist, fact-checker, and founder of Factual — has taken her experience from over a decade of fact-checking and distilled her expertise on how to best work with a fact-checker via this guide.
Anyone using this document will learn best practices on how to annotate different elements of a narrative nonfiction piece for a fact-checker.
Not only will this guide help reporters and other writers annotate stories well for fact-checkers, but it will encourage reporters to develop good habits for tracking sourcing, organizing notes, and beyond.
Who this guide can benefit:
Reporters, authors, podcasters, documentary film producers who want to improve how they annotate drafts for sources.
Nonfiction or journalism instructors who wish to teach best-practices for bulletproofing your reporting to students.
Newsrooms, magazines, production networks, podcasts who want to set standards on how they prefer their creators to best annotate their work for fact-checkers.
Organizations that don’t use fact-checkers and ask creators to “fact-check themselves” by annotating their work in a way that someone else can independently follow their sourcing.
The guide has been vetted and reviewed by other veteran fact-checkers and is available as a PDF download.
Please note: The pricing for this guide is intended for individual use only — meaning if you are a freelancer, or a creative working on solo projects (such as books), you’re in the right place!
However, if you are a professor, managing editor or supervising producer in charge of fact-checking who wishes to purchase this guide for your classroom or organization, please contact work.factual@gmail.com to inquire about pricing and a license.