Fact-checking & Revising

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How to Deal with a Difficult Edit

Giuliana Viglione

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Roundtable: A Writer’s Guide to Being Edited

Humberto Basilio

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The Pitch as Hypothesis: How Stories Evolve through Reporting

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

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How to Handle a Mistake

Shira Feder

Amber Gibson and Cassandra Willyard Investigate Abuse of Medical Residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jeanne Erdmann

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Ask TON: Who Should Trim Long Drafts?

TON Editors

Jacqui Banaszynski’s Literary Forensics: A Diagnostic Tool to Improve Writing

Christina Selby

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Unlocked: How to Push Past a Career Barrier

Lucas Laursen

Stephen Ornes

Office Hours with Stephen Ornes

TON Editors

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Surviving the Grind of Fact-Checking

Heather Pringle

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The First Critic Is You: Editing Your Own Work

Tiên Nguyễn

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Dispatches from Fact-Checking

Shannon Palus

Ask TON: How Much Editing to Expect?

TON Editors

Ask TON: How to Fact-Check

TON Editors

Ask TON: Is This Draft Too Long?

TON Editors

Ask TON: Are Edits Suggestions or Demands?

TON Editors