How To Annotate Just About Anything For Fact-Checking
In this guide, journalist and fact-checker Wudan Yan has taken her experience from over a decade of fact-checking and combined it into a single document.
Anyone using this document will learn best practices on how to annotate different elements of a narrative nonfiction piece for a fact-checker.
Not only will this guide help reporters and other writers annotate stories well for fact-checkers, but it will encourage reporters good habits for tracking sourcing, organizing notes, and beyond.
Who this is for:
Reporters, authors, podcasters, documentary film producers who want to improve how they annotate drafts for sources.
Nonfiction or journalism Instructors who wish to teach best-practices for bulletproofing your reporting to students.
Newsrooms, magazines, production networks, podcasts, who want to set standards on how they prefer their creators to best annotate their work for fact-checkers.
Organizations that don’t use fact-checkers by asking their creators to “fact-check themselves” by annotate their work in a way that someone else can independently follow their sourcing.
The guide has been vetted and reviewed by other veteran fact-checkers and is available as a PDF download
Please note: The pricing for this guide is intended for individual use only — meaning if you are a freelancer, or a creative working on solo projects (such as books), you’re in the right place!
However, if you are a professor, managing editor of a publication or a supervising producer of a production network in charge of fact-checking who wishes to purchase this guide to ultimately benefit your classroom or organization, please contact wudan.yan@gmail.com to inquire about pricing and a license.
TWC Patreons: your discount code does not work for this product as this is not a digital product developed for The Writers’ Co-op.