An accuracy checklist: Mark Memmott lists 13 things to double-check in a story, followed at National Public Radio.
It is “a reminder of things we all know we should do,” he writes, like checking names, dates, quotes and locations.
“When an NPR journalist says something is ready for editing, that journalist is confirming that all such double-checking has been done,” he writes.
Source: Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists