Editing Fact-checking (section)

===Checking original reportage===
[[Stephen Glass (reporter)|Stephen Glass]] began his journalism career as a fact-checker. He went on to invent fictitious stories, which he submitted as [[reportage]], and which fact-checkers at ''[[The New Republic]]'' (and other weeklies for which he worked) never flagged. [[Michael Kelly (editor)|Michael Kelly]], who edited some of Glass's concocted stories, blamed himself, rather than the fact-checkers, saying: "Any fact-checking system is built on trust ... If a reporter is willing to fake notes, it defeats the system. Anyway, the real vetting system is not fact-checking but the editor."{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}