Erica Peterson Photo: J. Tyler Franklin/Louisville Public Media

You’ve done your interviews, written your script and filed your story. But did you do one last fact-check? On this episode of The Pub, I look at what newsrooms are doing about fact-checking.

No longer just for magazines or long-form projects, some public media newsrooms have begun to apply more robust fact-checking to their daily and feature work.

Our audiences expect our stories to be accurate, and on top of that, they expect our journalists to hold newsmakers to account for falsehoods that come out in interviews.

But how do we balance the need for rigorous fact-checking with the daily pressures of filling newscasts and covering our communities? WFPL News Director Erica Peterson shares what her newsroom has done to avoid errors big and small.