Angie Drobnic Holan is top editor in charge of PolitiFact, a news unit within the Tampa Bay Times organization. She sees fact-checking as a part of journalists’ mission to hold politicians accountable.
API interviewed me by phone back in December; it was a good conversation.
New editors named for PolitiFact and PunditFact
Angie Drobnic Holan has been named editor of PolitiFact, the Tampa Bay Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website.
Good news from PolitiFact!
Books: ‘The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Religion and Politics’
Just one more thing I love about being a journalist: Sometimes I get to interview authors of books I really like. Here’s a link to my interview with Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist who wrote “The Happiness Hypothesis” and “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Religion and Politics.”
A Look at PolitiFact Grades of Candidates – NYTimes.com
This is an interesting analysis from the New York Times’ 538 blog of the many ratings we’ve issued over at PolitiFact.
The Fact-Checking Explosion | American Journalism Review
A great article that really captures journalism’s current approach to fact-checking.