American Press Institute, "The Future of Fact-Checking: Moving ahead in accountability journalism"

1. How to increase
transparency in fact
checking?
Designing a practical solution for the next frontier of fact checking

2. The Problem
How we do improve our
credibility and trustworthiness
with readers when fact checking?

3. Compile and link to a
database of trusted sources
to improve trust and transparency.
The Solution

4. SourceHub:
A repository for trustworthy sources

5. Source Detail Page
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Summary of source
Details of why trustworthy
Brief description
Articles citing this source
Narrative description
Examples to further
demonstrate trustworthiness
(a la blog pingback/trackback)
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● Article 1
● Article 2
● Article 3
● Article 4
● Article 5
● Article 6
TYPE OF SOURCE
Person, organization, document,
data set, etc

6. How does it help?
Instead of explaining why a source is
credible each time you cite it,
SourceHub would save fact-checkers
time and effort.

7. The Fact Check Post
By Credible Reporter
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Just the facts, ma’am
Link to the source detail page

8. How does it work?
We imagine this resource would be hosted and maintained by a
trusted third-party organization.
The goal would be for this to act like a Wikipedia of sources.
Sources would be added and updated by journalists, fact-
checkers, academics, etc.
The system could be built using an open-source platform like
WordPress and participating orgs could install a WordPress
plugin to make linking to the source detail page easier.