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Mar 4, 2015: Current: Political fact-checking website finds first pubmedia partner in California
“We have a lot of respect for how public radio does journalism,” PolitiFact Editor Angie Drobnic Holan said. “It’s substantive, it’s not superficial.” Dec 27, 2013: Forbes: Pants On Fire: PolitiFact Tries To Hide That It Rated 'True' in 2008 Obamacare's 'Keep Your Health Plan' Promise
On October 9, 2008, Angie Drobnic Holan of PolitiFact published an article using the site’s “Truth-O-Meter” to evaluate this claim: “Under Barack Obama’s health care proposal, ‘if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it.’” |
Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor of PolitiFact. She previously was deputy editor, and before that a reporter for PolitiFact, helping launch the site in 2007. She was a member of the PolitiFact team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election. She was named editor in 2013. She has been with the Tampa Bay Times since 2005 and previously worked at newspapers in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and New Mexico. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s of library science from the University of South Florida. Her undergraduate degree is from the Plan II liberal arts program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a native of Louisiana and attended the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. |
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Holan lectured on fact-checking methods for the 2014 Global Fact-Checking Summit, held in London; at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school in St. Petersburg, Florida; and at the Alice G. Smith Lecture at her alma mater, the University of South Florida. In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize the USF School of Information presented her with the Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Jan 6, 2022: Angie Drobnic Holan: A year of false narratives about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, summarized: PolitiFact spent the past year examining the events, debunking false claims of election fraud, and trying to understand how misinformation spurred it. On Jan. 6, 2021, PolitiFact journalists were waiting to fact-check comments from senators and House members as they counted electoral votes and certified Joe Biden as president. Instead we watched, along with everyone else, as rioters overran the U.S. Capitol, fueled by misinformation from then-President Donald Trump and a storm of pro-Trump media.
We’ve spent the past year examining the events of Jan. 6, debunking false claims of election fraud in 2020, and trying to understand how misinformation — much of it spread online — spurred such real-life consequences.
Here is a summary of our coverage since that dramatic day. Links in the story will take you deeper into our stories and fact-checks with fuller explanation and detailed sources: Poynter.
We’ve spent the past year examining the events of Jan. 6, debunking false claims of election fraud in 2020, and trying to understand how misinformation — much of it spread online — spurred such real-life consequences.
Here is a summary of our coverage since that dramatic day. Links in the story will take you deeper into our stories and fact-checks with fuller explanation and detailed sources: Poynter.
