Fact-checking: collateral damage in the US-Europe digital cold war

Ana Brakus

Ana Brakus is a leading young newsroom management professional in Croatia, with years of experience in both journalism and management roles. She is the executive director and co-founder of a non-profit media organization Faktograf – Association for the Informed Public, the publisher of Croatia’s first fact-checking platform. She holds a degree in political science.

Angie Drobnic Holan

Angie Drobnic Holan is a journalist, editor and writer with a background in library science. She currently serves as director of the International Fact-Checking Network, an organization that empowers fact-checkers around the world. Before that, she was editor-in-chief of PolitiFact, the U.S. politics fact-checking website, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for its fact-checking of the 2008 presidential election. Angie holds dual master’s degrees in journalism and library & information science, and she has taught as an adjunct instructor at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has appeared on national television and radio shows (CNN, PBS Newshour, NPR, etc.) to discuss fact-checking and information integrity. Her public speaking includes presentations at universities, libraries and conferences. She was a 2023 Nieman fellow at Harvard University where she studied the intersection of journalism and democracy.

Chris Morris

Chris Morris has been the Chief Executive of Full Fact in London since October 2023, leading a team of nearly 50 people at the UK’s largest independent fact checking charity. Previously, Chris was the first dedicated fact checker on air and online at BBC News, pioneering fact checking on mainstream broadcast outlets through his development and leadership of BBC Reality Check. His work covered two general elections, post-Brexit politics, the US Presidential election, the pandemic, and the climate crisis. Before launching Reality Check, Chris spent more than two decades as a senior foreign correspondent, living and working in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and the United States.

Courtney Radsch

Courtney C. Radsch is a journalist, author and scholar who writes and speaks about the way technology impacts journalism. She is the Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute where she produces and oversees cutting-edge research into news media market structures and helps design smart policy solutions to protect and bolster journalism’s financial and editorial independence. Her current research focuses on AI governance, technology policy, and the future of journalism and she advises policymakers and publishers around the world on issues like news media bargaining codes, generative AI and disinformation. Radsch is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and has published in top media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, The Guardian, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Project Syndicate, among others, as well as peer-reviewed an...

Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo

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