Just the Facts: How to Find Your Way in a Media Ecosystem Full of Misinformation

SPJ Ethics Week observance with a webinar focused on journalists' obligation to report fairly and accurately. Two fact-checking pros will explain their work and give journalists some guidance about how to use these tools, and how to do their own factchecking for local stories. The panel will be moderated by Professor Chris Roberts, lead author of Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2022), and host of www.doingmediaethics.com.
Lori Robertson is the managing editor of FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and an advisory board member for the International Fact-Checking Network. Before joining FactCheck.org in 2007, Lori covered the media for nine years as an editor and writer for American Journalism Review, a bimonthly media watchdog magazine. At AJR, she won the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism. Previously, she was the administrative director of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families, a resource center for journalists covering at-risk kids.
Louis Jacobson has been with PolitiFact since 2009, currently as senior correspondent. Previously, he served as deputy editor of Roll Call and as founding editor of its legislative wire service, CongressNow, and as a reporter for National Journal magazine. He teaches students at West Virginia University's Reed College of Media how to produce fact-checks for PolitiFact West Virginia, and is a visiting scholar at St. Bonaventure University's Jandoli School of Communication, teaching students how to produce fact-checks for PolitiFact New York.