ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (May 5, 2026) — The Poynter Institute is now offering research and fact-checking expertise like the kind behind the Pulitzer-Prize winning PolitiFact newsroom to all news organizations and journalists. Poynter Research , a fee-based service, helps newsrooms, independent journalists, podcasters and content creators uncover hard-to-find facts, verify complex claims and publish with confidence. The service provides access to experienced, award-winning researchers to help journalists with important reporting projects, public records retrieval, source backgrounding and job candidate screening.  “As newsrooms have become leaner, many lack full-time researchers and fact-checkers who were once key partners in the reporting process.…