{"id":5573,"date":"2021-05-11T06:11:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T10:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2021-05-11T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:16:56","slug":"how-to-think-like-a-fact-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/how-to-think-like-a-fact-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Think Like a Fact-checker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-760x570.jpeg 760w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-333x250.jpeg 333w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-667x500.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-512x384.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-867x650.jpeg 867w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-1733x1300.jpeg 1733w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-145x109.jpeg 145w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-307x230.jpeg 307w, https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jour6-613x460.jpeg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Sissel McCarthy shared strategies on how to become a more literate news consumer with a group of educators, psychologists and parents at the Breakthroughs in 2E Education Conference last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She talked about the challenges facing news consumers today, including information overload,&nbsp; overcoming biases and the blurring of lines between news and other media and urged the audience to start thinking more like professional fact-checkers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her top tip is to verify information online before sharing it using a method called \u201clateral reading.\u201d The phrase \u201clateral reading\u201d was coined by Stanford professors, Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew, to describe how fact-checkers open another tab in their browsers to quickly vet a source or fact-check information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCarthy also reminded the audience to read past the headline and practice good information hygiene by \u201cscrubbing,\u201d aka vetting a story for at least 20 seconds before sharing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sissel McCarthy shared strategies on how to become a more literate news consumer at the Breakthroughs in 2E Education Conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage_news","category-journalism-program-news","tag-spring-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}