Factual. Fast.
Forward Thinking.
Join a network of nonpartisan publishers meeting readers where they’re at—and reaping the benefits.
Gigafact is always looking for new organizations to join the network. If you are a nonpartisan, nonactivist newsroom with deep commitments to factual reporting and innovation, we invite you to get in touch.
ENGAGEMENT
Good Karma—Great Growth
Fact briefs have proven to be an excellent tactic for growing audiences. They drive outsized views and search referrals when compared to other content, and they have great potential to become evergreen.
Other audience applications for fact briefs:
Fact Brief Quizzes Included
Quizzes yield 20 questions per session on average, and include customizable calls-to-action.
Check out the Fort Worth Report’s Quiz.
Reader Tipline Included
Source fact brief ideas from your readers and easily close the loop with them if you write a fact brief based on their ideas. AI-powered to filter out spam.
Social Media Images Included
Easily turn your fact briefs into social media-ready images with a single click.
See how the Colorado Sun posts theirs.
Newsletters Easy to Implement
Fact brief newsletters enjoy very high open rates.
Sign up for the Colorado Sun’s.
Video & Audio
Because fact briefs are so succinct, they make for great short-form audio and video content.
OTHER BENEFITS
Valuable New Capacity
With Gigafact, newsrooms gain new capacity. Gigafact fellows are not only trained in rigorous sourcing and succinct fact brief writing, but also in AI tools, social media research and engagement techniques. Some fellows who begin as freelancers go on to be hired full-time.
The Network Effect
The Gigafact network of fact brief publishers is growing! In addition to regular best practice sharing and events, newsrooms are also encouraged to republish one another’s fact briefs. These collaborative efforts enhance the impact of fact brief programs.
Cost-Effective
Invited newsrooms may join Gigafact at no cost, and some are eligible for a one-time seed grant. This may change as the network grows and evolves, but at this time, we seek to make becoming a Gigafact publisher low-risk and low-cost.
Fact briefs are relatively inexpensive to publish. According to surveys of newsrooms that relied on freelancer talent, the average total cost of researching, writing, editing and publishing fact briefs was $1,000-2,000 per month.
OUR ROLE
Support from Gigafact
Gigafact supports newsrooms in implementing fact briefs by offering the following assistance to members of its network:
Talent Sourcing
We will help match you with a qualified Gigafact Fellow in your region or domain.
Finding Claims
We provide a workshop on the art of identifying claims worth checking, have staff on hand to help your team spot them when needed, and offer AI-powered research tools for further assistance.
Training and Editorial Support
Gigafact’s editorial team provides an 8-week training to your fact brief writers and editors to enable them to swiftly publish high quality, impactful briefs.
Weekly Editorial Feedback
We host regular sessions with our network and editorial staff to align on best practices, share winning strategies, and learn from one another.
Analytics
Our staff keeps close track of the impact fact briefs are having on readers, public figures, other media and on your own internal metrics, and provide you with regular reports.
Software Tools
We provide newsrooms with a suite of software tools to assist in reporting and fact brief publishing, as well as audience engagement tools.
Seed Grants
We offer small initial grants to qualifying newsrooms to help offset the costs of launching the program.
Distribution Support
We pursue various strategies and external partnerships to get your fact briefs seen by as many readers as possible.
Gigafact partners with AllSides to amplify fact brief findings. AllSides is a public benefit corporation that exposes people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum.
Seem like a good fit?
We’d love to hear from you.