Angie Drobnic Holan is a journalist, editor and writer with a background in library science. She currently serves as director of the International Fact-Checking Network, an organization that empowers fact-checkers around the world. Before that, she was editor-in-chief of PolitiFact, the U.S. politics fact-checking website, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for its fact-checking of the 2008 presidential election.

Angie holds dual master’s degrees in journalism and library & information science, and she has taught as an adjunct instructor at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has appeared on national television and radio shows (CNN, PBS Newshour, NPR, etc.) to discuss fact-checking and information integrity. Her public speaking includes presentations at universities, libraries and conferences. She was a 2023 Nieman fellow at Harvard University where she studied the intersection of journalism and democracy.

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