01 · Bring the context
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Know what your coverage actually says.
One article. Three useful answers: what landed, what needs checking, and what to do next. A reusable prompt and worked example for the AI tool you already use.
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02 · Follow the evidence
See what actually landed
Review message presence and prominence, exact passages, and factual claims marked supported, contradicted by a supplied source, or unresolved.
03 · Make the call
Keep the final word
Accept, amend or dismiss each finding. Then ask for a clean summary and a short action list. A message gap is not automatically a factual error.
Completed example · Human-annotated
A real article. A deliberately small review.
This is a human-annotated teaching example, not an AI benchmark or a review of NASA’s actual PR goals. The three messages below are invented demonstration goals. Only the listed excerpts are reviewed; absence means absent from these excerpts, not the full article.
Audience: General readers learning what an asteroid-deflection test demonstrated.
Objective: Explain the measured result and its limits without presenting a test as an immediate threat response.
Coverage: NASA’s DART impact changed asteroid’s orbit forever in planetary defense test, Space.com, published 2022-10-11; updated 2022-10-12.
Reference: NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space, 2022-10-11. Both sources accessed 2026-11-09. The NASA release is a primary source, not independent confirmation.
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“NASA's DART impact changed asteroid's orbit forever in planetary defense test”
“although NASA knows of no such threats in the foreseeable future”
“shortening Dimorphos' nearly 12-hour orbit by a whopping 32 minutes”
“which cost about $314 million”
“the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes”
“This measurement has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus 2 minutes.”
“Neither Dimorphos nor Didymos poses any hazard to Earth before or after DART’s controlled collision with Dimorphos.”
01 · What landed
Message by message, with the passage attached.
The mission demonstrated asteroid deflection.
The headline explicitly connects a changed orbit with a planetary-defense test. This is presence, not proof of audience understanding.
“NASA's DART impact changed asteroid's orbit forever in planetary defense test”
The measured orbital change was 32 minutes, with about two minutes of uncertainty.
The excerpt includes the 32-minute change but not its uncertainty. The complete demonstration message did not land in this excerpt. That omission does not make the reported number false.
“shortening Dimorphos' nearly 12-hour orbit by a whopping 32 minutes”
“the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes”
“This measurement has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus 2 minutes.”
These particular asteroids were not a threat to Earth.
The article excerpt gives broad reassurance about known threats. It does not explicitly name the two asteroids in that reassurance, unlike the supplied reference.
“although NASA knows of no such threats in the foreseeable future”
“Neither Dimorphos nor Didymos poses any hazard to Earth before or after DART’s controlled collision with Dimorphos.”
02 · What needs checking
An unsupported claim is a question, not a verdict.
The orbit shortened by 32 minutes.
The article and contemporaneous release agree on the measured change. R2 supplies the uncertainty; the reference is NASA’s own account, not independent verification.
“shortening Dimorphos' nearly 12-hour orbit by a whopping 32 minutes”
“the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes”
DART cost about $314 million.
The selected NASA reference excerpts do not establish this amount or its accounting scope. This is not evidence that the cost is wrong. Check a dated mission budget source before making a correction request.
“which cost about $314 million”
03 · What to do next
A short list a person can act on.
- No correction request on the 32-minute result based on this evidence.
If using the number in your own summary, preserve its approximate two-minute uncertainty.
A3 · Opening, paragraph 3 (short excerpt) · Space.com article (2022-10-11) “shortening Dimorphos' nearly 12-hour orbit by a whopping 32 minutes”
R1 · NASA release, paragraph beginning “Prior to DART’s impact” (short excerpt) · NASA reference (2022-10-11) “the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes”
R2 · Same NASA paragraph, final sentence · NASA reference (2022-10-11) “This measurement has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus 2 minutes.”
- Verify the cost against a dated budget source if it matters to your brief.
Confirm what the amount includes and the relevant time period; keep it unresolved until then.
A4 · Body, paragraph beginning “The DART spacecraft” (short excerpt) · Space.com article (2022-10-11) “which cost about $314 million”
- Adjust the next brief to make uncertainty and the no-threat context easy to quote.
This is a message-planning suggestion, not a demand that an outlet include every preferred message.
A2 · Opening, paragraph 2 (short excerpt) · Space.com article (2022-10-11) “although NASA knows of no such threats in the foreseeable future”
A3 · Opening, paragraph 3 (short excerpt) · Space.com article (2022-10-11) “shortening Dimorphos' nearly 12-hour orbit by a whopping 32 minutes”
R2 · Same NASA paragraph, final sentence · NASA reference (2022-10-11) “This measurement has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus 2 minutes.”
R3 · NASA release, paragraph beginning “Neither Dimorphos” · NASA reference (2022-10-11) “Neither Dimorphos nor Didymos poses any hazard to Earth before or after DART’s controlled collision with Dimorphos.”
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A structured review of one coverage item against your goals and supplied evidence. It is not an AI-writing detector, a universal coverage score, or proof of reach, understanding, sales or ROI. Missing reference facts leave factual checks unresolved, not falsely reassuring.
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