James Gaines

I’ve been offering professional fact-checking since 2018 and have worked with a number of different outlets, including:

• magazines, such as Pacific Standard, Discover, Knowable, and Undark;

• podcasts, such as Gimlet’s How to Save a Planet;

• and books, such as Coders, by Clive Thompson and All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson.

Want to see some clips? Check out:

• “Why there’s no such thing as pristine nature”, Knowable Magazine

• “Educational Fight or Flight”, Pacific Standard

• “Soil: The Dirty Climate Solution", How to Save a Planet

• “When Jackie Cochran Flew This Jet, She Broke All Kind of Barriers”, Smithsonian Magazine

• “To Fight Locusts, Historic Rivals India and Pakistan Team Up”, Undark

I’ve also organized a panel for the Northwest Science Writers Association and recently acted as a facilitator at the Knight Science Journalism’s November 2021 Fact-checking Workshop.

Looking for a fact-checker for your project? I’m always happy to chat, provide estimates, and sample fact-checking reports. And even if I can’t find space for the project, I often know other fact-checkers who I may be able to refer to you.