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Fact-checking is one of the main journalistic solutions against the disinformation challenge. In order for fact-checkers to perform their work efficiently, they need to base their action on the scientific method and the application of a verification systematic model to check false narratives. This article analyzes and describes the usual verification process carried out by these media institutions in the different phases of selection, execution and, above all, elaboration of the verification reports. The results of this journalistic work, published on the websites of these outlets, hybridize properties of different types of journalistic reports, but do not fit in neither of them. Therefore, the question is left open as to whether fact-checking is giving birth to a new journalistic genre (the fact-checking report) or simply reconfiguring some of the existing ones.

This brief essay proposes and clarifies the use of the transpodcast concept to refer to transmedia projects that, starting from a core podcast, expand their storytelling to other platforms and media. In analogy to the concept of transradio, the transpodcastextends its narrative (without repetition of content and with differentiated functions) in web spaces such as blogs, social media, digital radio and newsletters, and can complement its stories in non-digital contexts, such as live shows. It is important to differentiate these transpodcast strategies from other developments such as transmedia stories where the podcast is a narrative extension and not a central element of the project, or adaptations of the same (audio) content in other media and/or platforms.