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Bill Adair

Bill Adair

Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
bill.adair@duke.edu
Sanford Building 136, Box 90241, Durham, NC 27708
136 Sanford Building, Box 90241, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

The lessons of Squash, Duke’s automated fact-checking platform

Internet Publication · June 16, 2021 The project brought the world one step closer to live automated fact-checking, but it still has a ways to go ... Link to item Cite

The Lies Heard Round The World

Other The New York times · February 15, 2015 Link to item Cite

Unfulfilled promise of e-books offers lessons for news organizations

Other Poynter Online · September 2013 The news media can learn from the missed opportunities of book publishers, which are not taking advantage of enhanced e-books. ... Cite

Bezos has what the Washington Post needs: patience and imagination

Other Poynter Online · August 2013 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has the resources to help reinvent the news business and isn’t a product of its ink-and-paper past. ... Cite

Bill Adair, setting pants ablaze no more

Other Columbia Journalism Review · April 2013 Cite

Farewell to Rep. C.W. Bill Young; he made Congress work

Other Tampa Bay Times · 2013 At this moment in our political history, we need adults like Bill Young to get Congress functioning again. ... Cite

Can you handle the truth?

Other The Walkley Magazine · December 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Download: Bill Adair

Other The New York Times Sunday Review · September 2012 Cite

Let’s blow up the news story and build new forms of journalism

Other Poynter Online · June 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Q&A with PolitiFact Editor Bill Adair

Other World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers · August 2011 Cite

Op-ed: Bias is good. It just needs a label.

Other Columbia Journalism Review Bias in journalism is good. It just needs to be labeled and understood. ... Link to item Cite