Eric Smillie | Writer

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Eric Smillie is a freelance journalist covering art, travel, food, and culture for GOOD, Make, VIA, Wired, and other publications.

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eric at ericsmillie.com

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Posts from November 2008

What is a fact checker?

Last week I guest-taught a lesson on fact checking to a group of journalism students at SF State. I was nervous and overly prepared. But the class was great, mostly because the students and the professor had a lot of questions they wanted answered right away. And partly because we got to watch this video [...]