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How are fact-checking and Knowledge-based journalism Different?

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Linda Greenhouse, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, claims journalists should be as promising as possible with their sources and practices. Greenhouse: We live in a "expanding reality" era in which everyone talks about a topic with sensitivity. The truth should be checked twice, she claims.

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Linda Greenhouse, winner of a Pulitzer said that journalists have to do their best to provide not just the facts, but also — always — the truth.

Journalists should be as transparent as possible about sources and methods so audiences can make their own assessment of the information.

We are in a world of "expanding truth", where everyone who is knowledable about something, and has a bit of exposure, talks in the news about a trending topic. Facts should be checked. ALWAYS. That's what distingues knowledge-based from fact-checking. In one, the person speaks just because he/she has a knowledge about something, but most of the times, facts are not really checked.

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