Fact-checking

I fact-check news stories, narrative features, profiles, and in-depth research reports for ScienceAlert and MIT Technology Review. In 2021, I completed the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fact-Checking Workshop, which included 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, Science Alert

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

• Surprise Discovery Shows Forbidden Particles Can Attract Each Other, Science Alert

• Misfolded Proteins Could Make Dementia Transmissible, Scientists Suggest, Science Alert

• A Pivotal Human Ancestor Walked With Dinosaurs, Study Finds, Science Alert

• Gigantic Tails of Helium Spotted Leaking From Faraway Planet, Science Alert

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

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