Fact Check Workflow

This is a systematic approach to verifying factual claims, whether you're pre-publishing an article or writing a dedicated fact-check story. It walks through seven steps from claim extraction to corrections, with templates for documenting research, contacting sources for comment, and rating claims on standard scales (true, mostly true, half true, etc.). The strength here is the structure. Fact-checking isn't just Googling something, it's knowing what counts as a checkable claim versus an opinion, finding primary sources instead of secondary ones, documenting evidence so your work is defensible, and giving people right of response. If you're building verification workflows for a newsroom or just want to be more rigorous about what you publish, the templates alone will save you from reinventing the process each time.