Statista Connect Success Story

How a media company integrated sourced fact-checking into its newsroom workflow

Two newsroom workflows running on verified data automated fact-checking and infographics.

A leading media company wanted its journalists to get reliable evidence without leaving the editorial workflow. It operates across digital, publishing, and broadcast, so that timely, sourced information can be accessed across the entire newsroom.

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The challenge

Verifying a claim usually means stepping away from the story, searching across multiple sources, and documenting everything. Building a visual adds another job, for example, finding reliable data and turning it into a publish-ready infographic.

Both tasks pull journalists out of their editorial flow. The media company intended to build greater confidence in newsroom research by adding a reliable fact-checking process and data visualization into the workflow.

The solution

Fact-checking that happens where journalists already work. The media company connected Statista Connect to an automated workflow in their team’s chat. When a journalist submits a claim or article in a designated channel, the workflow:

identifies the key factual claims
checks them against relevant Statista data
returns the findings, with supporting sources, in the same thread

The journalists review sourced evidence without moving into a separate research tool.

Verified data for visual storytelling. Journalists can now use Statista data in an infographic tool to create graphics based on verified data, so research and visualization sit in one editorial process.

The results

Trusted data now reaches journalists at two critical points in publishing: when they check a claim and when they turn data into a story.

The newsroom no longer treats research, verification, and visualization as separate jobs. Now, the process runs from a claim, to supporting evidence, to a visual story readers can trust.

Fact-checks happen in the existing thread, with sources returned alongside the results.
Less manual research and a shorter path to a sourced answer.
Verified data moves straight into infographics when a story benefits from a visual explanation.

Why it matters

For newsrooms, sourced data is most valuable at the time when editorial work happens. Statista Connect makes verified market, consumer, and industry data available inside automated workflows and communication tools, with source information returned to the user.