Alan Greenblatt
Alan Greenblatt is a political reporter for Governing Magazine, and previously reported for NPR and Congressional Quarterly. In April 2017, Greenblatt was the author of a white paper for API, “The Future of Fact-Checking: Moving ahead in political accountability journalism.”
The Future of Fact-Checking: Moving ahead in political accountability journalism
Overview These should be heady days for fact-checkers. In an industry that has not otherwise been enjoying robust growth, the number of media outlets focused on fact-checking and political accountability reporting has grown rapidly. Bolstered by new partnerships and technology, demonstrably more fact-checking took place during the 2016 election than in previous elections. Media organizations […]
Challenges from an “alternative facts” era
Politicians have lied throughout history, but today’s political climate presents particular challenges to fact-checkers — and that was the concern of journalists and others gathered at our summit earlier this year. Throughout the 2016 election cycle and into the new White House administration, some politicians’ habit of making “demonstrably false claims” has kept fact-checkers exceptionally […]
How fact-checkers will respond to new challenges: Some solutions
Although much of the summit discussion centered on challenges facing fact-checkers during the 2016 election and aftermath, people remained optimistic that the enterprise as a whole could meet those challenges. The fact that the summit itself was taking place and that fact-checkers are willing, in a sense, to fact check themselves is “tremendously admirable,” Kahan […]