Prominence has been observed in a new wave of fact checking journalism in the past decade to counter misleading or outrageous claims of political figures. Notable among these are FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. The study led by Bill Adair, a Duke faculty member who was a founder of PolitiFact at the Tampa Bay Times, identified 59 fact-checking groups globally, of which more than 15 are in the United States. "It ...Sunday 13 April 2014
Momentum Observed in Fact Checking Journalism
Prominence has been observed in a new wave of fact checking journalism in the past decade to counter misleading or outrageous claims of political figures. Notable among these are FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. The study led by Bill Adair, a Duke faculty member who was a founder of PolitiFact at the Tampa Bay Times, identified 59 fact-checking groups globally, of which more than 15 are in the United States. "It ...
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