On Thursday, October 9, Laura Edlund leads the Editors Canada webinar “Introduction to Fact-Checking as an Editorial Skill or New Specialty, with Resources, Tips and Tricks.”
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Date: October 9, 2025
Time: 1pm, ET
Length: 1 hour
Language: English
Level: Introductory
Type: Instructional
Member price: $42
Non-member price: $70
Readers and other audiences want accurate content. Professional editorial standards include fact-checking and accuracy. Plain language calls for accurate content. Writers, editors, plain language specialists, journalists, content creators, other communication professionals, employers and clients want text that is presented as fact to actually be correct.
For a long time, fact-checking has been a skill that editors could and sometimes did bring to projects, but perhaps now more than ever—with fast-paced research and writing, AI “hallucinations” and search engines, misinformation and disinformation, and audience trust being so easily lost—fact-checking is an incredibly valuable skill for editors to develop, finetune and promote in their careers and businesses.
This webinar is an introduction to fact-checking; it presents a snapshot and selected resources, tips and tricks for editors and other communication professionals interested in how to fact-check or fact-check more and better.
Instructor
Laura Edlund is an editor, writer and communications professional who lives in Canada and specializes in plain language, education and stories. She is a Certified Structural Editor, a Certified Stylistic Editor, and a member of both Editors Canada and PLAIN (Plain Language Association International). She is enrolled in the Simon Fraser University plain language program, lives and walks her dog in Toronto, and can be found online on LinkedIn, in the Editors Canada directory of editors and at lauraedlund.ca.
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Editors Canada’s Virtual Training Day
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This event will be held virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, from 8:45 a.m., EDT to 5:45 p.m., EDT. All training sessions will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.
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