verification Archives - Ellen Hume Media Analyst and Journalist

Fun and Games in the Washington Press Corps

“Journalism could be dangerous, I knew, even for American reporters in peacetime…”

Help Stop Fake Political News!

Here are the quick insider tips on how to figure out if a news item is fake or not

Separating real news from “fake news”

I’m happy to see this new initiative that helps us identify the real journalists who offer trusted work, with accountability. Now we need to get more media literacy, so consumers will know to use tools like this Transparency Tracker to select reality-based,...

The Gerbaud conversation: finding nutrition in news?

If everyone is now a journalist, thanks to mobile media tools, how can consumers create a nutritious news diet for themselves? How can they sort out what reality is captured and what is constructed and therefore presumably less authentic? This was the question we were...

Do the facts matter?

So how far should real journalists go in saying that someone is “misstating” the facts, i.e. lying? This was raised recently by the NYTimes ombudsman. http://t.co/rn2GLZrx …Everyone came down on the poor fellow to say DUH, of course, that’s what real journalists...