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In Sping 2019, New Corp began serious work towards creating a year-round fact-checker for ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ readers and media tentatively called Factable. Think of a PolitiFact tailored for local journalism, but different in that we will try to combine video and a little attitude with print analysis.

The team of Chuck Plunkett (director), Emilie Johnson (instructor) and Tammy Rae Matthews (Ph.D. student and fact-checker editor) guided ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ News Corps students to seek to produce solid, publishable, quality long-form print and multimedia pieces of investigative or explanatory journalism that meet our profession’s ethical standards. The students were tasked with significant individual work and asked to report in teams. A key focus was to develop their abilities to interest professional newsrooms in your work. They also helped in the preliminary round of developing a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ News Corps fact-checker, a powerful tool for the public in which we will take on the critical service of testing the reliability of political claims and arguments made at the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ legislature, in state government and in large and small cities and towns.

In Summer 2019, Emilie Johnson guided the students through Steamboat to create productive content for ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder's new Water Desk.

Please find Chuck Plunkett's TEDxMileHigh here: