Journalism discipline of verification

Verification is the process of establishing the truth, accuracy, or validity of something.

Journalists often describe the essence of their work as finding and presenting “the facts” and also “the truth about the facts.”

They also describe using certain methods – a way of working – which Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel describe in The Elements of Journalism as a scientific-like approach to getting the facts and also the right facts.

Called the Discipline of Verification, its intellectual foundation rests on three core concepts – transparency, humility, and originality.