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Guidelines for newsrooms that are new to fact-checking

A guide to setting up a bulletproof fact-checking program in your newsroom.

The American Press Institute’s Accountability Project offers this document, written in memo form, to ease the task of creating, implementing and explaining a new staff initiative. This document is designed to be easily modified for project scope, staff size and resource commitment.