Knowledge

PesaCheck incubator helps organisations establish standalone fact-checking desks: methodology, corrections policy, tooling and the first months of published output. It is the most involved of our programmes and runs with a small number of partners at a time.

Our mentorship programme pairs journalists starting a fact-checking desk with PesaCheck editors, over a fixed term with agreed outputs. Mentees publish under their own mastheads, with editorial review rather than ghostwriting.

Applications open twice a year and are announced on the Media Centre.

We run verification training for newsrooms, civil-society organisations and universities, in the languages our desks publish in. Courses cover source discovery, image and video verification, and reading public finance documents.

• Open newsroom cohorts
• Bespoke desk training
• University partnerships

Sessions are delivered in person and online, and materials stay available to participants afterwards.