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The Fact-Checking Universe in Spring 2012

How can fact-checking have the biggest impact in fostering a more reasoned debate over important public issues? Should it aim mainly to educate the public, to change political behavior, or to make reporting less timid—or all three?
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Public Interest Obligations

The Media Policy Initiative has mapped all full power television stations. How are these broadcasters repaying their public interest obligations?
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The Rise of Political Fact-checking

Through devices such as “Pinocchios” and “Pants-on-Fire” verdicts, journalists have formally asserted their right to adjudicate the truth or falsehood of the carefully-constructed campaign narratives of political candidates.
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Misinformation and Fact-checking

Journalistic watchdogs can help to change elite incentives to promote misleading claims and can inform journalists who would otherwise disseminate those claims.
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Reclaiming The Airwaves

The current model of giving broadcasters access to the airwaves in exchange for certain public interest obligations no longer works. This paper explores ways that public media policy can be updated for the Internet age.
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About MPI

The Media Policy Initiative, part of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, formulates policy and regulatory reforms to foster the development of a healthy media that satisfies the needs of democracy in the 21st century. MPI’s fellows and staff research, analyze, and promote policies that are committed to maximizing the public interest potential of innovative media, supported by partnerships with communities, researchers, industry, and public interest groups. By studying the social and economic ramifications of policymaking – particularly on poor, rural, and other underserved constituencies – MPI provides in-depth, objective research, analysis, and findings for policy decisionmakers and the general public. Continue reading.

Policy Papers

Digital Freedom of Expression in Uzbekistan
July 18, 2012
Public Media Policy, Spectrum Policy, and Rethinking Public Interest Obligations for the 21st Century
Benjamin Lennett
Tom Glaisyer
Sascha Meinrath
June 21, 2012
The Fact-Checking Universe in Spring 2012
Lucas Graves
Tom Glaisyer
February 28, 2012
Misinformation and Fact-checking
February 28, 2012
The Rise of Political Fact-checking
February 24, 2012
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Resources

Information Communities Case Studies

U.S. Media Mapping Resources

Public Interest Obligations

Articles and Op-Eds

Want To Pay Less and Get More?
August 01 | Slate
Sascha Meinrath
Nation of Immigrants
June 25 | The New Yorker
Steve Coll
Building a Multi-Platform Media For—and By—the Public
June 21 | Columbia Journalism Review
Tom Glaisyer
Benjamin Lennett
The Rewards (and Risks) of Cyber War
June 07 | The New Yorker
Steve Coll
Finding journalism's Future
April 11 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Victor Pickard
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Transcripts and Resources

PIPAC Opposition to National Association of Broadcasters' Petition for Stay Pending Judicial Review
July 10, 2012
Letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
May 31, 2012
Comments on Standardized Program Reporting Requirements for Broadcast Licensees
Tom Glaisyer
February 13, 2012
Comments on Standardized Program Reporting Requirements for Broadcast Licensees
Tom Glaisyer
January 27, 2012
Comments on Standardized Program Reporting Requirements for Broadcast Licensees
Tom Glaisyer
January 23, 2012
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Media Policy Initiative Tweets

Events

Dark Money, Media and the 2012 Campaign
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 9:30am | Washington
Media Transparency
Friday, April 20, 2012
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