“The new fact checkers: The history and practice of an emerging journalistic genre”, Lucas Graves, 13. april
Dr. Lucas Graves, senior research fellow ved Reuters institutt for studier av journalistikk, Universitetet i Oxford.
Abstract
Political fact-checking revolves around a very specific mission: to hold public figures accountable for false or misleading claims. Reporters who practice this kind of journalism form an increasingly self-aware movement within the profession, one grounded in a shared critique of conventional, “he said, she said” objective reporting. What are the origins of this genre, and how does it challenge conventional notions of objectivity? This talk reviews the history and the practices of political fact-checking, considering their work through the lens of “institutional facts.” Such facts are much less stable than we sometimes suppose, and help to account for both fact-checking practices and the controversies they invite.