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| Brooks Jackson | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | FactCheck.org |
| Role: | Director Emeritus |
| Location: | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Expertise: | Journalism |
| Education: | •Northwestern University •Syracuse University (M.A.) |
| Website: | Official website |
Brooks Jackson is a journalist and Director Emeritus of the political fact-checking website FactCheck.org. He co-founded FactCheck.org with Kathleen Hall Jamieson in 2003 and was the website's director until Eugene Kiely took over in January 2013.[1]
Education
Jackson graduated from Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism, and has a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University.[2]
Career
Jackson began his career in journalism in 1967. He worked for the Associated Press' New York City bureau for three years before transferring to the Washington, D.C., bureau in 1970. In 1980, Jackson moved to The Wall Street Journal. He joined CNN in 1990.[2]
In 1992, while working on the presidential election for CNN, Jackson began writing a form of investigative journalism that took aim at false or misleading political statements.[3] His "AdPolice" reports, also known as "adwatch" reporting, investigated political campaigns, particularly their advertising strategies and financing.[2][4]
Jackson moved from CNN to the Annenberg Public Policy Center in 2003. In December of that same year, he and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the center's director, launched FactCheck.org, a website dedicated solely to political fact-checking. Jackson was the director of FactCheck.org from its inception until late 2012, when he became the Director Emeritus. He continues to work as a part-time reporter and consultant for the website.[5]
Jackson is the author of three books:
- Honest Graft: Big Money and the American Political Process (Knopf, 1988).
- Broken Promise: Why the Federal Election Commission Failed (Twentieth Century Fund, 1990).
- (with Kathleen Hall Jamieson) unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007).
Awards
Jackson has won several journalism awards and one award is named in his honor:[4]
- Worth Bingham Award, 1985
- Raymond Clapper Award, 1974
- AP Managing Editors Award, 1974
The Cronkite/Jackson Prize for Fact Checking Political Messages, created in 2013, is named after Brooks Jackson and CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite. The prize is awarded for "best practices in reducing the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics" and judged by a jury convened by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. It is one of several awards given at the biennial Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.[6][7]
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See also
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
- Eugene Kiely
- FactCheck.org
- The Annenberg Public Policy Center
- The methodologies of fact-checking
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Annenberg Public Policy Center, “Brooks Jackson,” accessed September 14, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS, “Brooks Jackson,” accessed September 15, 2015
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedBIO - ↑ 4.0 4.1 FactCheck.org, "Our Staff," accessed September 15, 2015
- ↑ FactCheck.org, "Firefighters, Fact-checking and American Journalism," December 21, 2012
- ↑ Annenberg Public Policy Center, “The Cronkite/Jackson Prize for Fact Checking Political Messages,” April 22, 2013
- ↑ Annenberg School for Communication, "New journalism award named after FactCheck's Brooks Jackson," March 6, 2013
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