On the podcast for Radio Berkman we tear apart the difference between Truth, Fact, and Evidence, and the quiet, but irreplaceable, role of the humble factchecker in our media:

• Author/factchecker Jim Fingal on the Lifespan of a Fact
• Former GQ intern and factchecker Gillian Brassil on how factcheckers get paid to watch True Blood
• Veteran Atlantic Monthly factchecking department head Yvonne Rolzhausen on the underinvestment of media resources for factchecking
• David Weinberger, author of the recent book Too Big To Know on what a fact is and why they don’t make for good storytelling

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