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.

Operation
branch
Total time
70 min
Deliverable
source-criticism-brief

In one line

Run the newsroom โ€” delegate the grunt work to AI and build a real article.

Stage run

#StageTypeAimMin
1Bridge of Fake NewsarcadeStudents 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.
2Critical Mediadossier
3Delegate the TaskworkbenchLearn 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.
4Source-Criticism BrieflarpCan 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)