Mediagazer: Fact-checking should be part of how news organizations earn trust (Craig Newmark/Nieman Journalism Lab)

11:40 AM ET, January 14, 2012

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Fact-checking should be part of how news organizations earn trust — Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact checking is an idea whose time has come.

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