Duke Campaign Stop 2016

A Site for Scholarly Commentary, Debate and Media Resources for the 2016 Election

Experts

Bill Adair

Professor of the practice of journalism and public policy; director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Reporter’s Lab; creator of PolitiFact

Media Accountability/Fact-Checker, Public Policy and Media

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Recent Headlines

Political Fact-checking

Bill Adair on fact checking after the election

Political Fact-checking

Bill Adair on fact-checking

Political Fact-checking

Bill Adair on the fact-checking movement

Presidential Debates

Fact-checking the presidential debate

Presidential Debates

Facebook Live post-debate discussion

Candidate Claims

Keeping fact-checkers ‘crazy busy’

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and their running mates are keeping fact-checkers "crazy busy" this election season, says PolitiFact founding editor and Duke professor Bill Adair.

CBS This Morning

Political Fact-checking

Why is politics filled with so many pants-on-fire lies these days?

Vox

Bill Adair on the future of fact-checking

Campaign Coverage

Obama calls out news media for shallow campaign coverage: Is he right?

The Christian Science Monitor

Journalism and public policy professor Bill Adair on the role of fact checkers during elections

Policy Issues

Sanford launches podcast on the policy questions of the day

The Ways & Means audio show is all about expert storytelling that explains policy issues and how they affect our lives.

Sanford School of Public Policy

Election Coverage

The media and probing candidates’ personal histories

Media scrutiny of political candidates’ personal history continues to intensify in the 2016 election campaign, a panel of speakers tells Duke students.