CHECKOLOGY VOCAB #1

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• Bias

• Documentation

• expert source

• Fact

The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation, event or fact.

• Documentation

• Fact

• Context

• Bias

Authoritative evidence — such as recordings, documents or online activity — to support statements or facts in a news report.

• Context

• Fairness

• Fact

• Documentation

Someone who is a specialist in a particular subject.

• FAirness

• Documentation

• Expert Source

• Fact

Someone who was present when an event happened and gives a firsthand account.

• Eyewitness Source

• Official Source

• Expert Source

• FAct

A statement that can be verified or shown to be true.

• Source

• Transparency

• Fact

• Bias

In journalism, a standard that calls for journalists to approach their reporting in an honest, accurate way — without allowing their own biases to interfere. This includes considering and reporting on all relevant sides of a subject without giving anything more weight or attention than the facts warrant. It also includes making sure that all parties directly involved in or most affected by the topic being covered have had the opportunity to tell their side.

• Fairness

• Bias

• Facts

• Documentation

A representative who provides information to a journalist in an official capacity. This includes spokespeople for the White House, members of Congress or a federal agency, or for the governor, the mayor, a state or city agency, or the local school board

• transparency

• sources

• Official source

• truth

In journalism, the people, organizations, documents and other providers of background information that journalists use as the basis of their reporting.

• bias

• sources

• transparency

• truth

Policies and practices designed to ensure that journalists keep an open mind and produce work that is truthful, accurate, fair and reliable.

• Transparency

• Standards of quality journalism

• truth

• bias