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PolitiFact announces an exclusive
health news fact-checking partnership with Kaiser Health News (KHN)
The partnership will be a resource to health
care consumers and other newsrooms as they decipher claims made by
politicians.
PETERSBURG,
Fla. & SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (April 2, 2019) – The Poynter Institute, a global
nonprofit dedicated to excellence in journalism, announces an exclusive new
partnership between its fact-checking news organization, PolitiFact, and KFF
(Kaiser Family Foundation) – the trusted source of health policy information
– through Kaiser Health News (KHN), KFF’s editorially independent national
health and health policy newsroom.
Through this first topic-based fact-checking
partnership, PolitiFact staffers will train and work with the KHN editorial
team to report, write and edit content using PolitiFact’s fact-checking
methodology and will be on-hand throughout the course of the partnership to
ensure the quality and execution within its code of ethics and editorial standards. All fact-checks are
reviewed and rated on the Truth-O-Meter by three PolitiFact editors before
publication.
Under this initial two-year partnership, both
organizations will produce and publish health-related fact-checks on a new
co-branded digital channel that will be accessible from either politifact.com or khn.org. PolitiFact and KHN anticipate publishing
health-related fact-checks beginning later this spring.
“Politicians debate health care and invoke
research and stats with an authority that may not always be accurate or in
context,” said Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute. “This
collaboration between two of the most credible and respected brands in journalism
— PolitiFact and Kaiser Health News — aims to help consumers untangle the
half-truths often found in the political discourse relating to health care.”
PolitiFact is the largest political fact-checking
news organization in the United States and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009.
National PolitiFact reporters are based in St. Petersburg and Washington,
D.C., while news partnerships expand PolitiFact reporting into 13 states and
in Spanish-speaking news markets.
“KFF has a long history of providing trusted
information on national health issues. This collaboration brings the
knowledge and experience of KHN’s team of journalists together with the
established and trusted PolitiFact approach to help the general public,
policymakers, and other news organizations sort through the misinformation
and disinformation that often permeates political and industry discussions of
health policy issues,” said Drew Altman, KFF’s CEO and KHN’s founding
publisher. “We are thrilled to be working with Poynter and PolitiFact
on this joint effort.”
About The Poynter Institute:
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a
global leader in journalism education and a strategy center that stands for
uncompromising excellence in journalism, media and 21st-century public
discourse. Poynter faculty teach seminars and workshops at the Institute in
St. Petersburg, Florida, and at conferences and organizations around the
world. Its e-learning division, News University, offers the world’s largest
online journalism curriculum, with hundreds of interactive courses and tens
of thousands of registered international users. The Institute’s website,
poynter.org, produces 24-hour coverage about media, ethics, technology and
the business of news. Poynter is the home of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics
and Leadership, the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact, the International
Fact-Checking Network and MediaWise, a teen digital information literacy
project. Collectively, this work builds public awareness about journalism,
media, the First Amendment and discourse that serves democracy and the public
good.
About The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and
Kaiser Health News:
Filling the need for trusted information on
national health issues, KFF (the Kaiser Family Foundation) is a nonprofit
organization based in San Francisco, California. KHN is an editorially
independent program of KFF, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
KHN is the nation’s leading and largest health and health policy newsroom,
with more than 50 journalists and dozens of freelancers producing stories
that run on khn.org and that are published by hundreds of news
organizations across the country.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
PolitiFact announces an exclusive health news fact-checking partnership with Kaiser Health News (KHN)
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