Writers Room
fact-check-media ยท drill
Aim
Learn to delegate tasks to AI through prompt engineering, building a piece end to end, to produce a finished article.
In one line
Run the newsroom โ delegate the grunt work to AI and build a real article.
Stage run
| # | Stage | Type | Aim | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bridge of Fake News | arcade | Students snap-judge ten real AI press headlines as REAL or HYPE under a deadline clock, then confront a scored credulity meter that exposes their own bias โ buying staged demos as real while dismissing the quiet peer-reviewed breakthroughs as hype. | |
| 2 | Critical Media | dossier | ||
| 3 | Delegate the Task | workbench | Learn to break a deadline job into delegatable pieces and brief each one, to make AI do real work for you, in the context of running a newsroom that must publish and verify under time pressure. | |
| 4 | Source-Criticism Brief | larp | Can you take one claim that is racing across feeds right now and prove, on paper, whether it survives contact with its own source? | 70 |
Evidence artefact
Source-Criticism Brief (claims rated + sourced)