As part of Colorado’s largest statewide member-supported multimedia organization, the journalists at Rocky Mountain PBS are driven by a desire to serve our communities. We aim to empower all Coloradans, regardless of political affiliation.

Few topics are as ripe for misrepresentation as politics. In this election year, we have an opportunity to explain the purpose of Reality Check, a nonpartisan educational initiative of the Rocky Mountain PBS journalism team to create a more media-literate Colorado.

Media literacy is the ability to determine the quality and credibility of information to know what to trust, share, and act on. Facts matter, and digital media literacy has become an essential life skill. Educating and empowering Coloradans to be more discerning consumers of information is foundational to strengthening our democratic society.

Our mission: To advance the practice of fact-checking throughout Colorado, creating better informed, more engaged, and more empowered individuals – and ultimately a stronger democracy.

Our vision: A Colorado where people of all ages and backgrounds know how to identify credible information and understand the indispensable role a free press has in our democracy.

Our strategy: Partner with local, national, and international media literacy educators, fact-checkers, and librarians to engage and educate Coloradans wherever they consume media.

The sheer volume of today’s everyday inaccuracies, manipulations, and deception in the information we consume requires us all to be skilled fact-checkers. Here are the tools. Please use them.