How to Get Into Journalism as a Fact-Checker

Abby Vesoulis, former fact-checker

Courtesy of Abby Vesoulis

What does a magazine fact-checker do?

Fact-checking is like firefighting in the sense that the job is exactly what it sounds like: You check facts before a story is published. On a micro-level, that can mean catching that a bill was enacted in 1998 rather than 1996 or that a lieutenant colonel was injured in Iraq by an IED (impro…