Duke Reporters' Lab
About the Lab
The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
Team
Bill Adair
Bill Adair is the Knight Professor for the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the director of the Duke Reporters' Lab. He is the creator of Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and worked for 24 years as a reporter and editor at the Tampa Bay Times. He is the author of The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation.
Mark Stencel
Mark Stencel is NPR's former managing editor for digital news and co-author of The Goat Must Be Fed, a 2014 Duke Reporters' Lab study on obstacles to newsroom innovation. He previously held senior editing and executive positions at the Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly, and was a reporter for the the News & Observer in Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
Catherine Clabby
Catherine Clabby is the editor and project manager at Duke Reporters' Lab. She is a longtime journalist who also worked in magazine and book publishing. She covered environmental health for the N.C. Health News and science, medicine, government and politics for the Raleigh News & Observer. She was an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow from 2007-2008.
Christopher Guess
Christopher Guess is the lead technologist for the Reporters' Lab.
Erica Ryan
Erica Ryan is the project manager for the Share the Facts widget in the Reporters' Lab.
Joel Luther
Joel Luther is the ClaimReview Research and Outreach Coordinator in the Reporters' Lab.
Maddie Braksick
Maddie Braksick is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Lucas Fagan
Lucas Fagan is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Daniela Flamini
Daniela Flamini is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Alex Johnson
Alex Johnson is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Bill McCarthy
Bill McCarthy is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Sydney McKinney
Sydney McKinney is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Julianna Rennie
Julianna Rennie is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Jake Sheridan
Jake Sheridan is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.