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RR 2017/151 The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking Brooke Borel University of Chicago Press Chicago 2016 192 pp. ISBN 978 0 226 29076 8 (hbck); ISBN 978 0 226 29093 5 (pbck); ISBN 978 0 226 291093 (e-book) $55 (hbck); $17 (pbck); $15 (e-book) Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing
Brooke Borel's The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking is a comprehensive guide to performing practical fact-checking of articles, books, audio-visual content and other types of informative media. This accessible guide draws insights and illustrations from Borel's years of experience as a writer, editor and writing instructor. Published in 2016, this guide provides a very current overview of the media industry, as well as practical tools and tips for how to fact-check modern informational media. While the guide's content is sometimes reminiscent of the American Psychological Association's Publication Manual and other similar resources for journalists, the clear writing and comprehensible examples make this resource appropriate for media consumers and producers alike.
The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking begins by describing fact-checking as a professional practice and by contextualizing the importance of this practice to a society flooded with information. Indeed, as Borel highlights, the advent of widespread internet usage in recent years means that anyone can...