Pod črto manual: How to develop your editorial fact-checking protocol

Welcome to Pod črto KnowHow series of manuals where we share our know-how with the international community of journalists and media. 

Pod črto is celebrating its 10th anniversary. And this feels like the right time to share our know-how with others. We hope you will be able to use our protocol as a blueprint for development of your own, suited to the needs of your own team.

What we are sharing with you is a blueprint of our internal editorial fact-checking protocol that we’ve been using for the last seven years. This is the protocol we use for testing and final verification of our own investigations. We hope it gives you some ideas how to start your own in either your own work or organisation.

This fact-checking playbook is a blueprint for the editorial fact-checking protocol. 

Our publication contains:

• Introduction
• Why fact-check your work? 
• Fact-checking as a part of standard editorial process
• Fact-checking protocol: 3 main levels
• Testing it out
• Implementing your own protocol

This is the protocol we use for testing and final verification of our own investigations here at Pod črto.

If you do apply it into your editorial process or just test it, we will be very interested in your feedback. If you have an even better—or just different—solution than the workflow we already follow, please share it, as we would love to include tips from the wider community in the next edition of our manual.

If you choose to apply it into your editorial process or just test it out, we will be very interested in your feedback.

We’ll be happy to hear from you at: info@podcrto.si