When the author of the third article, Catherine Sheffo, explains that although your data results may sometimes seem shocking and exciting you must always check the process multiple times, I realized how important it is for a journalist to double or even triple check every single one of their sources, as mistyping a word is one thing, but incorrectly publishing an entire set of data and explaining the errors as truths could be extremely harmful to one’s career. As the media, we must be always on guard to catch the false information that others would simply accept as fact, lest we be less trusted by the public than many news sources already are.

Towards the end of the article, Sheffo makes several references of reporters looking to one another for help and encouragement. I find it interesting that this career that could so easily be turned into a competition between reporters of similar coverage would work even more efficiently if reporters would only assist their peers and expect the same in return. If news outlets worked together and remained on the same page as each other, false news would be spread with much more difficulty, as reporters could verify information through any of their colleagues.