When Fact-Checking Meant Something

When Fact-Checking Meant Something

I’m forever fascinated by the work of journalists and newsrooms, by the peculiar processes through which events become facts become stories. The New Yorker fact-checking department has, of course, long been a source of awe and intrigue, a font of surprising anecdotes about the particular and the detail-obsessed. Still, Susan Choi’s account of her time as a checker for the magazine is an exceptional contribution to the micro-genre of fact-checkin…