> Their brief is essentially the same as any other journalist, and I've generally found that the high end of newspapers/magazines are more credible than the maj

> Their brief is essentially the same as any other journalist, and I've generally found that the high end of newspapers/magazines are more credible than the majority of fact-checking sites. Not sure I would trust high end newspapers either, in Germany we had a small scandal with Claas Relotius who received over a dozen awards for outstanding journalism. Most of his articles where more fiction than fact. The newspapers publishing his articles outright ignored any complaints by his victims and even the papers claiming to have "world class" fact checkers didn't bother to review the output of high profile authors. It seems that to journalists anything is fine as long as it captures the attention of their target audience.