How Local TV Stations are Helping Viewers Figure Out What’s Real Coronavirus News

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Last winter, while covering the Democratic debates and the impeachment trial, Jason Puckett started getting a trickle of emails with questions from viewers about a new virus emerging in China.

“We kept a running list of multiple claims and rumors that we were watching and had researchers start compiling information on them,” Puckett, who leads VERIFY, a fact-checking project for Tegna’s more than 50 TV stations around the country, told Poynter via email.  “When the first U.S. case was announced on Jan. 21, we immediately combined the research we’d done and put together our first official coronavirus VERIFY on Jan. 22.”

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