Maintenance
8 things a background briefing checklist has to cover
Background briefing checklist for scope, source support, chronology, institutions, definitions, data, visuals, attribution, uncertainty, updates, and final review.
Section
Maintenance
Maintenance
Expert source checklist: what to confirm before quoting anyone
Attribution and expert-source checklist for checking authority, evidence, document status, field, methods, interests, quotation context, anonymity, and updates.
Maintenance
Business economic claim checklist: verify the math
The business economic claim checklist checks U.S. data, company filings, arithmetic tie-outs, forecasts, revisions, and market claims.
Maintenance
Health claim checklist: relative risk and the headline warning
Health and science claim checklist for checking evidence, risk numbers, study populations, conflicts, uncertainty, practical advice, headlines, and updates.
Maintenance
Court story checklist: sealing, redaction, and protected names
Court story checklist for privacy: what sealing and protective orders mean, which federal rules limit identifiers, and how to handle minors, victims and jurors.
Maintenance
Developing story checklist: fairness, harm, and the final read
Developing story context checklist for facts, attribution, chronology, definitions, affected people, uncertainty, fairness, corrections, and updates.
Maintenance
7 things a policy briefing checklist has to cover
Policy briefing checklist for authority, stage, dates, public input, funding, implementation, affected groups, enforcement, evidence, outcomes, and updates.
Maintenance
Public records request checklist: scope, exemptions, appeals
A public records request checklist: how to scope a request, read the exemption markings in the response letter, and choose between an appeal and mediation.
Maintenance
9 statistical claim checks before signing off
Statistical claim checklist for source, measure, sample, denominator, uncertainty, comparison, chart, causation, subgroup, revision, and headline checks.