Factcheck.org

Factcheck.org is an Annenberg project. Not that it makes any difference to the real facts, but if you care about America, it might make some difference to you.

FactCheckEd.org is an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It’s designed to help students learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day. Our site is a sister to the award-winning Annenberg Political Fact Check, which goes by the Internet address FactCheck.org. and monitors the factual accuracy of what is said in the nation’s political arena.

Both websites are projects of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, with funding for FactCheckEd.org provided by a grant from the Flora Family Foundation.

Viveca Novak

Project Director, FactCheckEd.org

Deputy Director, Annenberg Political Fact Check

Viveca Novak is a journalist whose coverage of politics and government in Washington spans nearly 20 years. She has reported in turn for Common Cause Magazine, National Journal, the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. AtTime she was a co-winner of Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize as well as the Clarion Award for investigative reporting into the campaign finance scandals of President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. She is co-author of Inside the Wire , the story of a military intelligence specialist's experience at Guantanamo Bay (Penguin Press: 2005). She holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and an M.S.L. from Yale Law School.

Brooks Jackson

Director, Annenberg Political Fact Check

Brooks Jackson is a journalist who covered Washington and national politics for 34 years, reporting in turn for The Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and CNN. At CNN he pioneered the "adwatch" and "factcheck" form of stories debunking false and misleading political statements starting with the Presidential election of 1992. His investigative reporting for The AP and the Journal won several national awards. He is the author of two books: Honest Graft: Big Money and the American Political Process (Knopf, 1988) and Broken Promise: Why the Federal Election Commission Failed (Twentieth Century Fund: 1990).

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, PhD

Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Dr. Kathleen Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has written extensively on the press, politics, and presidential campaigns. Her research into deceptive political TV ads produced techniques that are now in common use in TV "adwatch" stories. Among the many books she has authored are: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong (Basic Books, 2000).

Joe Miller

Staff Writer, Annenberg Political Fact Check

Joe Miller earned his BA in philosophy from Hampden-Sydney College, his MA in philosophy from Virginia Tech, and his PhD in political philosophy from the University of Virginia. He joined the Annenberg Public Policy Center in April, 2007 after working as a writer with the Mack/Crounse Group. Previously he was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy and at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a Visiting Fellow at the Callaghan Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of Wales at Swansea.

Jessica Henig

Staff Writer, Annenberg Political Fact Check

Jessica Henig earned her BA in history of science from Smith College, and her MA in English from the University of Maryland. While at Maryland, she taught digital literature and rhetorical writing. Prior to joining the Annenberg Public Policy Center in May 2007, she worked for the National Academies Press. She has also worked for the National Institutes of Health and as a freelance researcher and editor.