While memes and bluster often overwhelm substantive debate, fact-checking has emerged as an important -- and growing -- counterforce. More than 100 fact-checking projects around the world actively h...
Mark Stencel
Mark Stencel is co-director of the Duke Reporters' Lab at Duke University in North Carolina and the author of a 2015 American Press Institute report on the impact of political fact-checking.
He previously was the managing editor for digital news at National Public Radio (NPR) and held senior editing and executive positions at the Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C. He has been a visiting faculty member and digital fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., and is the co-author of two books on media and politics. He also is the board chair for the Student Press Law Center in Washington and an advisory board member for Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism in Georgia.
With the rise of automation in journalism, we have seen that automated tools can be used to write texts from structured information. But what about fact checking itself? We've seen a few high-profil...