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By Jyoti Madhoosoodanan (from a Facebook post)
Currently in an email thread that is 70 messages long (and growing) — all to check the accuracy of a 3,000 word story, with a special focus on a few sentences. Those sentences are not wrong, but we’d like to be sure that people who implied things in conversation were being factually correct. Yes, this is annoying. It also fills me with so much geeky gratitude for the care that people in journalism (reporters, fact checkers, editors) put into getting this work right.* * *
Jyoti Madhusoodanan is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon, who covers life sciences, health and chemistry.