Fact-checking

I’ve fact-checked news stories, narrative features, profiles, and in-depth reports for ScienceAlert and MIT Technology Review. In 2021, I completed the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fact-Checking Workshop, which covered best practices for fact-checking online news and print features.

Checking every fact, source and sliver of detail — including details or perspectives that a story may have overlooked or left out — is what I do to ensure a piece is watertight.

News Stories I’ve Fact-Checked

• Damaged DNA Could Warn of Parkinson's Long Before Symptoms, ScienceAlert

• A Rare Event Gave This Algae an Organelle That Traps And Uses Nitrogen, ScienceAlert

• Surprise Discovery Shows Forbidden Particles Can Attract Each Other, ScienceAlert

• Misfolded Proteins Could Make Dementia Transmissible, Scientists Suggest, ScienceAlert

• A Pivotal Human Ancestor Walked With Dinosaurs, Study Finds, ScienceAlert

• Gigantic Tails of Helium Spotted Leaking From Faraway Planet, ScienceAlert

• Decades-Long Experiment Finds Strange Mix of Antimatter in The Heart of Every Proton, ScienceAlert

• Astronomers Detect First-Ever Mystery Object in The 'Mass Gap' of Cosmic Collisions, ScienceAlert

• Plus hundreds more…