Bill Adair
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| Bill Adair | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | PolitiFact |
| Role: | Founder |
| Location: | Arlington, Va. |
| Expertise: | Journalism |
| Education: | Arizona State University |
| Website: | Official website |
Bill Adair is a journalist and the founder of PolitiFact, a national fact-checking website. He was the editor of PolitiFact until 2013. He is a professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and co-directs the Reporters’ Lab at Duke with Mark Stencel. Adair is a contributing editor at PolitiFact and an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute.[1][2]
Career
After graduating from Arizona State University in 1985, Adair worked for three years as a reporter for the Journal newspapers in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.[3]
For the next 24 years, he was a reporter and editor for the Washington bureau of the Tampa Bay Times (formerly known as the St. Petersburg Times). From 2004 to 2013, he was their Washington bureau chief.[4][5]
In 2007, Adair founded PolitiFact while continuing to serve as the Times Washington bureau chief. In 2009, PolitiFact became the first website to win a Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer was awarded for its coverage of the 2008 presidential election.[6]
PolitiFact is a project of the Tampa Bay Times which is owned by the Poynter Institute. PolitiFact has a national edition and state editions through partnerships with a number of newspapers across the U.S. PolitFact fact checks the accuracy of political claims made by politicians, candidates, activists and others involved in political speech. PunditFact is an offshoot of PolitiFact and fact checks pundits, columnists and others who comment on political issues.[5][7]
Adair left PolitiFact in 2013 to become a Knight professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He is the director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy.[8][9]
Adair co-directs the Reporters’ Lab at Duke with Mark Stencel, while remaining a contributing editor of PolitiFact and adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute.[10][2]
In 2014, Adair co-authored a report The Goat Must Be Fed about the use of digital tools in the newsroom.[11] He organized the first international fact-checking summit. The Global Fact-Checking Summit was supported by the Poynter Institute and took place in London in June of 2014. A second summit was held in 2015. Through the Reporters' Lab at Duke University, Adair and his students maintain a database of international fact-checking sites.[12]
Adair works alongside computer scientists to introduce data automation to media fact-checking. The project, known as uClaim/ICheck, was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.[12]
He is the author of The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation (Smithsonian Books, 2002).[10]
Awards
- The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting was awarded to the PolitiFact staff in 2009.
- The Knight Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism was awarded to PolitiFact staff in 2008 and 2010.
- Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse, Louisiana State University, 2009
- Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress, 1998[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Reporters' Lab, "Bill Adair," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reporters’ Lab, “Former NPR editor to join Reporters’ Lab, teach journalism at Duke,” September 3, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 LinkedIn, "Bill Adair," accessed September 16, 2015
- ↑ The Goat Must Be Fed, “About This Report,” May 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Poynter.org, “About Us,” accessed September 16, 2015
- ↑ Politifact, "PolitiFact wins Pulitzer," April 20, 2009
- ↑ PolitiFact.com, “The Principles of PolitiFact, PunditFact and the Truth-O-Meter,” November 1, 2013
- ↑ Politico, “Bill Adair, creator of PolitiFact, to leave Tampa Bay Times,” April 4, 2013
- ↑ Duke: Sanford School of Public Policy, “Faculty: Bill Adair” accessed September 16, 2015
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Knight Foundation, "Bill Adair, Knight Chair in Computational Journalism," accessed September 16, 2015
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