Publications of Bill Adair    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  by tags  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. Adair, B. The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation. Smithsonian Press, 2002.

Op-eds

  1. Adair, B. The lessons of Squash, Duke’s automated fact-checking platform.  June, 2021.  [abs]

Other

  1. Adair, B; Fischer-Zernin, Max, . "The Lies Heard Round The World." The New York times (February, 2015). [html]
  2. Stencel, M; Adair, B; Kamalakanthan, P. "The Goat Must Be Fed: Why digital tools are missing in most newsrooms." The Goat Must Be Fed: Why digital tools are missing in most newsrooms Duke Reporters' Lab. (May, 2014).
  3. Adair, B. "Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth." Nieman Reports (February, 2014). [aspx]
  4. Adair, B. "Unfulfilled promise of e-books offers lessons for news organizations." Poynter Online (September, 2013). [available here]  [abs]
  5. Adair, B. "Bezos has what the Washington Post needs: patience and imagination." Poynter Online (August, 2013). [available here]  [abs]
  6. Clune, B. "PolitiFact founder Bill Adair: Fact-checking is necessary evolution in journalism." World News Publishing Focus (July, 2013). [politifact-founder-bill-adair-fact-checking-is-necessary-evolution-in-journalism]
  7. Nyhan, B. "Bill Adair, setting pants ablaze no more." Columbia Journalism Review (April, 2013). [bill_adair_setting_pants_ablaze_no_more.php]
  8. Donovan, CO. "Tuesday Q&A: Bill Adair on leaving PolitiFact for academia and the Simon & Garfunkel theory of presidential coverage." Nieman Journalism Lab (April, 2013). [available here]
  9. Adair, B. "Farewell to Rep. C.W. Bill Young; he made Congress work." Tampa Bay Times (2013). [2146383]  [abs]
  10. Adair, B. "Can you handle the truth?." The Walkley Magazine (December, 2012). [politifact-bill-adair-2012]
  11. Murphy, K. "Download: Bill Adair." The New York Times Sunday Review (September, 2012). [catching-up-with-bill-adair-of-politifact.html]
  12. Phelps, A. "Inside the Star Chamber: How PolitiFact tries to find truth in a world of make-believe." Nieman Journalism Lab (August, 2012). [available here]
  13. Adair, B. "Let’s blow up the news story and build new forms of journalism." Poynter Online (June, 2012). [available here]
  14. Vinter, H. "Q&A with PolitiFact Editor Bill Adair." World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (August, 2011). [bill-adair-editor-of-politifact-readers-love-this-kind-of-accountability-journal]
  15. Myers, S. "PolitiFact takes lessons from fast-food industry as it franchises fact-checking." Poynter Online (May, 2010). [available here]
  16. Bill Adair. "Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth." Nieman Reports (Summer, 2008). [aspx]

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