Abstract

This article presents the teaching methodology applied in a fact checking project to verify the presidential campaign and the televised debate of the 2017 elections of Chile in a journalism undergraduate course. The design and development of the project is explained. Its journalistic and learning results ore analyzed, among these is to have been shortlisted in a journalism award of professional excellence. The assessment made by students of their learning when venrifying the public discourse of the authorities and their contribution to democracy in a watchdog role ore exposed.