Fact Checking  

with Iva Cheung

When: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, PDT

Where: Online via Zoom

Editors, as fact checkers, are an essential bulwark against misinformation. But knowing what facts to check and how and where to check them requires judgment, persistence, and a healthy amount of critical skepticism.

After this three-hour seminar, participants should be able to:

• name the main ethical and legal issues related to fact checking,
• identify which facts editors are expected to check for different genres and types of publications,
• evaluate the reliability of information sources, and
• list common tools and resources editors use in fact checking.

This session will include hands-on exercises that will help participants put fact-checking techniques into practice.

This seminar will be recorded.

Iva Cheung is a Certified Professional Editor, indexer, publishing consultant, and policy researcher. She has won the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence, President’s Award for Volunteer Service, and Karen Virag Award for promoting the editing profession. A long-time plain language advocate and scholar, she joined ASC’s Plain Language Technical Committee as an academic member. She is grateful to live as an uninvited settler on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (>Halkomelem)-speaking peoples, including the Qayqayt First Nation.