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Breaking News

Breaking News Consumer's Handbook

Who to follow

It's a good idea to keep up with what's going on with the major networks like NBC, Fox, and CNN, as well as big name papers like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal

Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Small and large newspapers from around the country.
National Newspapers Core This link opens in a new window
Includes Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post
Academic Search This link opens in a new window
Some national newspapers and news magazines

In addition, the following organizations are excellent resources for well-researched, in-depth coverage of important issues.

Propublica
An independent news agency, known for high quality investigative reporting
Center for Public Integrity
Nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative journalism
Center for Investigative Reporting
The nation's first nonprofit investigative journalism organization

The Hill
Since its launch in 1994, The Hill has been the newspaper for and about Congress, breaking stories from Capitol Hill, K Street and the White House.
Politico
Launched in 2007, the central mission of POLITICO, from birth to our current period of growth, has been to help sustain and vastly expand nonpartisan political and policy journalism.
Five Thirty Eight
Begun in 2008 as a polling aggregation website, Nate Silver's data analysis site has been purchased by the New York Times and then ESPN, expanding from purely polling data to a wide variety of topics, still very data driven.
SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog is devoted to comprehensively covering the U.S. Supreme Court without bias and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethical standards. The blog is provided as a public service.

Keeping an eye out for bias

Pew Research Center - Where News Audiences Fall on the Political Spectrum
Keep in mind, this study tracks the political leanings of the audiences, not necessarily the news itself
Wall Street Journal - Blue Feed, Red Feed
Compare how social media impacts what news we see based on political leanings
AllSides
Aggregates news from the center, right and left of the political spectrum. Keep in mind that the bias scale is generated by user feedback, so the site may reflect public perceptions of the news sources rather than actual bias

Evaluation Strategies

For helpful tips and tricks for evaluating news sources, check out these posters from NewseumED

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E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News	Is This Story Share-Worthy?

More about Fake News

Fake or real? How to self-check the news and get the facts
10 Tips for verifying viral social media videos
Verification Handbook
Read or download for free
Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.

Fact Checking Resources

Fake Health News

While this graphic, created by ABC Science Australia, is intended as a joke, it points to a very real problem in our society. The crazy headlines generated using the graphic don't sound very different than some health news we see reported all the time. Remember to view these stories critically and follow up on the claims yourself by looking at the actual research.

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