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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

In the News

Published January 22, 2025
From Philosophy to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Duke Authors Cover Big Topics
Published October 15, 2024
Political Lies and the Fact-Checks that Expose Them, on Sanford’s Podcast
Published December 20, 2023
Duke Lab Gives Fact-Checkers, Researchers New Tools to Thwart Misinformation
Published February 7, 2022
Loving Lies: A Disgraced Journalist Gets His Life Back in Shape
Published January 27, 2021
Policy Ideas for the Biden Administrations First Days
Published December 31, 2019
A Nobel Prize, a Brad Pitt film, and a Taylor Swift song
Published August 29, 2019
Op-Ed: Bias is good. It just needs a label.
Published June 7, 2019
Embedded fact-checks shouldn't just be about Trump (with Julianna Rennie)
Published December 28, 2018
Lessons for writers from Serial‘s year in a courthouse (co-authored with Julianna Rennie)
Published June 12, 2017
Heroes or Hacks? The Partisan Divide Over Fact-Checking
Published November 8, 2016
Bill Adair: Keep on Fact-Checking!
Published September 29, 2016
Fact-Checking Senate Campaign Ads Just Got Easier
Published September 20, 2016
Bill Adair: A post-factual democracy?
Published June 29, 2016
Bill Adair: Why is politics filled with so many pants-on-fire lies these days?
Published June 29, 2016
What do fact-checkers around the world have in common?
Published June 6, 2016
Bill Adair: What happens when a 50-something journalist gets a week’s worth of news from Snapchat Discover?
Published February 26, 2016
Bill Adair: Fact checkers haven't failed if politicians continue to twist the facts
Published December 17, 2015
PolitiFact creator Bill Adair: Pants, burning
Published July 29, 2015
Bill Adair quoted: Global fact-checkers meet in London to talk about success and challenges ahead
Published July 2, 2015
‘Learning to write again’: A Duke team tests a new way of reporting on New York City government
Published April 14, 2015
Adair Named Director of DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
Published February 16, 2015
The Lies Heard Round the World
Published February 16, 2015
Bill Adair, Maxime Fischer-Zernin: The lies heard round the world