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To evaluate the impartiality of news making and news checking is, however, first necessary to define its meaning when applied to the journalism practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not an easy task. Across dictionaries and lexical databases, impartiality is defined as a normative principle, without taking into account the domain. The Cambridge English dictionary, for example, defines impartiality as \u201cThe&nbsp;fact&nbsp;of not&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;any of the&nbsp;sides involved&nbsp;in an&nbsp;argument\u201d. Framenet, a lexical database based on frame semantics, defines the frame of (im)partiality as \u201cThis frame has to do with the bias or lack of bias of a Judge making an assessment concerning two or more sides\u201d. But how many sides are there in the news-making process? What are the biases that a journalist\/fact-checker might encounter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Networked Society, news-making\/checking is a process ultimately aimed at gaining \/verifying the acceptance of a certain interpretation of a news event. To put it in argumentative terms, it is \u201ca discourse aimed at convincing a reasonable critic of the acceptability of a standpoint by giving reasons that justify the standpoint\u201d (Van Eemeren &amp; Grootendorst, 2004). In other words, news-making\/checking are decision making processes that have to be continuously negotiated with a wider audience. But what steps have to be taken to guarantee impartiality in news\/making\/checking? Is there a standard definition or is it possible to build one? To answer these questions, we investigated how different stakeholders (news media agencies, fact-checking organizations, scholars, and practitioners) conceive and talk about impartiality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/latifproject.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20240322_Luiss_Report_Impartality-and-Bias_v7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read here the report<\/a><\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of impartiality is increasingly used as an argument to attack the credibility of news media outlets, as well as to undermine the trustworthiness of fact-checkers. 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