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Verification: check before you publish

How professional newsrooms check claims, documents, photos and videos before they publish — and what to do when something slips through.

4 lessons · about 35 min

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  1. 1Why verification comes first
  2. 2Checking a claim, step by step
  3. 3Photos and videos: is it real, and is it new?
  4. 4When you get it wrong

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