Fact Checking

Investigations:

This series of investigative reports by the Indy Week on hog waste in eastern North Carolina: “Hogwashed, Part 3: Solutions Exist for the Hog Industry’s Waste-Management Problem. Why Aren’t They Being Used?”

Fact-checking a series of reports on jail deaths: Autopsy Concludes That Uniece Fennell Committed Suicide Inside the Durham County Jail  

This story about Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police’s destruction of sexual assault kits, and the process of reporting sexual assault Why Did CMPD Destroy 1,000 Sexual Assault Kits?

Podcasts:

Decoder’s interview with Amazon’s Panos Panay on the future of Alexa

Decoder’s interview with Vlad Tenev of Robinhood 

Decoder’s interview with Splice CEO Kakul Sriravasta

This hour-long conversation with the author of one of 2023’s “Best nonfiction books” How the U.S. became 'Gun Country'

More samples available upon request.

Cole del Charco is an award-winning journalist who has fact checked ambitious news reports, radio reports, podcast episodes and series, and longform investigative magazine stories. All without getting sued.