Angie Drobnic Holan is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network and editor for

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and was part of the

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winning team of journalists noted for their

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of the 2008 presidential elections in the

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Background

Angie Drobnic began her career in journalism at

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’s ''NuCity'' (now ''Alibi'') in 1994, and left in 1998 to pursue her degree in journalism from

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.Domrzalski, D. (2009, May 6). Former Alibi staffer wins a Pulitzer. Alibi. Retrieved from http://alibi.com/news/27644/Former-Alibi-Staffer-Wins-a-Pulitzer.html She also earned a master’s degree in library science from the

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. More recently she has worked as a business reporter for the '' Mobile Press-Register'', a news reporter for the ''

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'', and a news researcher for the ''

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'', where she became an expert on the

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. She has also taught undergraduate courses in reporting and writing at the

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and the

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PolitiFact

She has been a part of PolitiFact since its launch in 2007, when

’ Washington bureau chief Bill Adair sought to create a unique way for covering the 2008 election. She began with the organization as a reporter, then as its deputy editor and editor of PolitiFact Florida. She was named editor in 2013.

Lectures and awards

She has lectured on fact-checking methods for the Global Fact-Checking summits 2014-2017, held in London, Buenos Aires and Madrid; at the

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, a journalism school in St. Petersburg,

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; at the Alice G. Smith Lecture at her alma mater, the University of South Florida and numerous other campuses. In addition to Holan winning a Pulitzer Prize, the USF School of Information presented her with the Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award."Angie Drobnic Holan professional biography"
''angieholan.com'', May 9, 2020. Retrieved 2023-02-24.

References

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