Faktograf is legally registered as an electronic media with the Croatian Agency for Electronic Media (AEM registry added in the document sent to factchecknet@poynter.org). Faktograf is a joint project of Croatian Journalists' Association (HND) http://hnd.hr/eng/ and civil society organization GONG http://gong.hr/en/, created with the main purpose of fact-checking.

Faktograf is registered as an electronic media. From its website presentation it is clear that it is dedicated strictly to fact-checking of public officials statements.

http://faktograf.hr/izjave/

Faktograf publishes reports more than 4 times a week approximately with one exception in the last 3 months when it took more than 10 days. An overall look shows the outlet fits in the criteria.

Ten fact-checks proving the consistency of our fact-checking:

http://faktograf.hr/2017/01/13/grabar-kitarovic-mobbing-mediji/

http://faktograf.hr/2017/02/15/kolinda-grabar-kitarovic-ne-smijemo-a-priori-osudivati/

http://faktograf.hr/2017/03/08/zekanovic-istanbulska-konvencija/

http://faktograf.hr/2017/04/12/plenkovic-lex-agrokor-podravka-adris-atlantic/

http://faktograf.hr/2017/05/17/grmoja-zupanije-hdz-spin/

http://faktograf.hr/2017/03/30/bernardic-minimalna-placa-blokirani/ http://faktograf.hr/2016/08/26/milanovic-sdp-red-rast-zaposlenost/

http://faktograf.hr/2017/03/14/miroslav-simic-hrvatska-broj-pobacaj/

http://faktograf.hr/2016/03/29/vujcic-politika-me-ne-moze-smijeniti/ http://faktograf.hr/2017/03/20/bernardic-glas-u-slavoniji-ne-vrijedi-jednako-kao-u-dalmaciji/

We fact-check statements of top officials, members of government, members of parliament and other elected officials and deputies, including local authorities. We fact-check claims made by the members of ruling parties as well as by the opposition. We are focused on statements of great public interest or on statements that are in the public eye at the moment.

We maintain coherent standards across fact-checks, regardless whether it's a claim of the ruling politician or opposition. However, our researches are more focused on the government members and members of influential groups because their decisions have greater impact on everyday lives of the citizens.

In every fact-check we have the same procedure – we give link on the public statement and then we try to determine the truth by comparing what is said with documents, registers, statistics, court decisions, articles previously published on this topic or the opinion of eminent experts.

We have five grades – from “Ni f od Fakta“ that stands for statements that are completely untrue to “Fakt“, meaning that the statement is completely based on facts. Grades are explained on our website http://faktograf.hr/sto-su-ocjene/ Grade for every statement is placed in the corner of the picture added to the article.

Faktograf is fulfilling the criteria. Articles cover various topics and involve both ruling officials and opposition leaders. As explained in the application Faktograf uses the same system of analyses in the articles which gives it structure that maintains the standard of objectivity.

Statute of Croatian Journalists Association (http://hnd.hr/dokumenti) states that HND is an independent non-profit organization, free of influences from political parties or the government.

Statute of GONG (http://gong.hr/media/uploads/statut_gong_17.12.2015._final.pdf) states that GONG is non-partisan and independent organization, founded in 1997 to encourage citizens to actively participate in political processes. Its goal is promoting and elevating human and civil rights, as well as encouraging and empowering citizens to participate in political processes.

Being joint project of HND and GONG, Faktograf is obliged to respect the same principles. We are not involved in political parties or in supporting political candidates.

Even though there is not an official statement at the web presentation of faktoraf.hr that covers this topic, since articles concern both officials and opposition representatives it is clear that the signatory is not advocating for any other cause than fact-checking itself. Since it’s a project of GONG and Croatian Journalist Association in which statute states that it is strictly forbidden to be politically involved faktograf.hr has to respect that principle too.

We choose statements on the basis of relevance or interest for particular topic in public. We start with providing link to the statement and then, as can be seen from the examples provided above, give links on every document, registry or other source that we use in checking the truthfulness of the statement. Readers can use those links to establish the correctness of our conclusions. If we cannot provide a hyperlink to the source, we name the source and quote it in detail.

Sources that are relevant for our fact-checks are: official documents like statements from the institutions, laws, statistics; domestic and international relevant organizations' reports; relevant media. More on our methodology on a following links: http://faktograf.hr/metodologija/

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http://faktograf.hr/sto-su-ocjene/

We use the similar method in our “Promises“ section, determining the fulfillment of the promises that were given before the elections. We compare that promises with the government results and grade it from “broken promise“ to ”fulfilled“. 

Faktograf has a fair methodology and it is very well explained for their readers at the website section named “methodology.” It shows what kind of sources are being used such as press releases, official documents, FOIA, other organization articles and research etc.

http://faktograf.hr/metodologija/

It can be improved by publishing financial records per year, so the public can easily access more information on money spending and money given to the Faktograf.

http://faktograf.hr/metodologija/

Team members and their biographies are listed at the webpage.

http://faktograf.hr/kontakt/

There is only an office email address. It may be better if there would be an official telephone number as well.

http://faktograf.hr/metodologija/

There is a step by step explained methodology at the “methodology” webpage section. It gives a fair overview how Faktograf chooses statements and the methodology behind the fact-checking.

http://faktograf.hr/kontakt/ or https://www.facebook.com/faktografhr/?fref=nf. We are currently working on cooperation with N1 television with the purpose to establish a new platform for readers where they can contact us and submit claims for fact-checking.

There is no clear explanation at the webpage. It uses social media and other media platforms to promote the idea of reader’s suggestions. It can be improved by putting it on their webpage as well.

http://faktograf.hr/impressum/

It is only stated that complaints and comments are based on the Law on media. It should be a bit more detailed for those who are not familiar with the procedure.

• First example: Marijana Petir, member of European Parliament – after seeing our fact-check of her statement considering the work on Sundays - pointed to imprecision via Twitter. We corrected the article and explained in disclaimer what was changed and why. http://faktograf.hr/2017/03/06/marijana-petir-rad-nedjeljom/ Still, Petir wasn't satisfied with the correction and sent us a new one. We published it in full the day after http://faktograf.hr/2017/03/07/demantij-marijane-petir/ 
• Second example: Minister of Science and Education Pavo Barišić wasn't happy with one of our analyses (besides fact-checking, we publish analysis of domestic policies as well) and he sent us his correction. We published it in full, according to the provisions of Media Law. http://faktograf.hr/2017/05/10/reagiranje-pave-barisica-netocno-je-da-sam-proglasen-plagijatorom/ But, since he repeated some false claims in his correction, we fact-checked what he said in a separate article published two days later http://faktograf.hr/2017/05/12/pavo-barisic-demanti-plagijator/ 

Examples show that there is a fair policy of article corrections and comments.