Fact Checking
Selected Clips:
This series of investigative reports by the Indy Week on hog waste in eastern North Carolina
This hour-long conversation with the author of one of 2023’s “Best nonfiction books”
How the U.S. became 'Gun Country'
This podcast about mental health among college students
The campus mental health crisis according to college journalists
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?
This podcast episode where Charlotte researchers investigate the city’s receding cankerworm infestation
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.