Bill Adair
Knight Professor for the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy Duke University
Twitter needs to harness automation to combat falsehoods
Twitter got some great headlines this week when it started linking President Donald Trump’s tweets…
Elegy to the widget
The Share the Facts widget started a revolution for fact-checkers, but when we turn off…
‘Embedded fact-checks’ shouldn’t just be about Trump
There’s a promising new trend in political journalism. Instead of waiting for fact-checkers to bring…
Fact-checking arrives on Broadway — but not my kind of fact-checking
A marvelous new Broadway play is going to bring new attention to magazine fact-checking. But…
It’s time to fact-check all the news
Political reporters are showing that fact-checking isn’t just for fact-checkers. After Donald Trump declared repeatedly…
The winners and losers of Serial’s first season (Ira Glass is on both lists)
Spoiler alert: If you haven’t listened to all 12 episodes of Serial, there are many…
Ben Smith, @crushingbort and @blippoblappo talk about plagiarism
I teach a journalism ethics class at Duke University that focuses on issues of trust.…
Lessons from London: fact-checkers have passion, but need more checks
Poynter’s inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit attracted a diverse group of journalists to a London classroom…
Poynter to hold Global Fact-Checking Summit in London
With fact-checking growing around the world, the Poynter Institute will convene the first Global Fact-Checking…
Creating new forms of journalism that put readers in charge
It’s been 20 years since the Internet began to disrupt journalism. It has turned our…