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In 2020, PolitiFact earned a grant to begin creating fact-checking videos at home to build our YouTube following. A few staffers (including me) were sent full video kits in order to start scripting and filming weekly videos. It was a learning curve, but it was key to our audience strategy to engage new audiences, and… Continue reading Video experience

In the fall of 2019, I received a grant to travel to Madrid, Spain and embed with a political fact-checker there: Maldita.es. This group of fact-checkers was doing some of the most innovative work around reader-suggested fact-checks, science debunking, and cataloguing members in their “superpoderes” expert system. About a year ago, Maldita.es began collecting volunteer superpoderes, translated… Continue reading Embedded in a Spanish fact-checking newsroom

In addition to my breaking news role at the Tampa Bay Times in 2016, I also created interactives to accompany written feature and enterprise stories. Tampa Bay Hometeam 100 Managed web design on a newsroom sports project that featured a countdown of the best local high school football players. I coordinated this joint endeavor with… Continue reading Tampa Bay Times features web production

In summer of 2015, I worked in the UNC Journalism School’s Reese News Lab on the launch of Capitol Hound, a searchable audio archive and alert system for N.C. General Assembly floor sessions and committee meetings. Explore Capitol Hound >> This key service provided the first written transcript of the state’s legislative proceedings, and in… Continue reading Capitol Hound

What PolitiFact learned about making money and earning trust Spring of 2019, something had been bugging me at PolitiFact: As Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan and I plugged away at our daily and weekly newsletters, I feared there was an information gap. Comments such as “you only fact-check the GOP” were pervasive, even from readers who had… Continue reading Work with Trusting News

In 2016, I worked as I was part of a nimble, digital-first team, breaking early morning news for the region. Along with two Seattle Times copy editors, a reporter and an editor, I was the online producer responsible for story layout, social promotion and homepage editing during the most highly-trafficked hours of the site. I… Continue reading Seattle Times web production