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.
Rebecca Iannucci
Rebecca Iannucci is the research and communications coordinator for the Duke Reporters' Lab. An Elon University '14 alumna, she spent two years in Los Angeles as a reporter for TVLine.com, where she wrote and reported on the television industry. She has since relocated to Raleigh with an interest in university communications, marketing and research.
Alexios Mantzarlis
Alexios Mantzarlis is the director and editor of the International Fact-Checking Network.
Erica Ryan
Erica Ryan is the project manager for the Share the Facts widget in the Reporters' Lab.
Riley Griffin
Riley Griffin is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Julia Donheiser
Julia Donheiser is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Daniela Flamini
Daniela Flamini is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Bill McCarthy
Bill McCarthy is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Julianna Rennie
Julianna Rennie is a student researcher in the Reporters' Lab.
Abby Snyder
Abby Snyder is a graduate student in the Sanford School of Public Policy and a research assistant in the Reporters' Lab.