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A Texan by birth and by choice
Fact-checking journalist at PolitiFact. Syracuse University & The Daily Orange alum. West Virginian. Friend to all cats.
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Media reporter at Poynter | afu@poynter.org
Expertise in ethics, reporting, writing, editing. Poynter. NPR.
Poynter Faculty. Poynter Leadership Academy coach, AI ethics, lots of other things. News Product Alliance founding member. Comanche citizen / Kiowa. Asheville
Director of MediaWise and faculty doing AI, media literacy and OSINT stuff @poynterinstitute.bsky.social | alexmahadevan.com
Audience Director at Poynter, PolitiFact.
Longtime local news editor now repping journalism at the Poynter Institute. Family is my rock. "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." Thomas Jefferson.
Poynter managing editor. Recently absconded from sunny St. Pete to not-so-sunny Buffalo. Still sorry I haven't replied to your email yet.
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We’ve been a school for journalists for 50 years. Home to the Poynter newsroom, PolitiFact, MediaWise and the International Fact-Checking Network.
NPR TV critic/analyst. This fall, I start teaching as Knight Professor of Media Ethics at Washington&Lee U. Blerd. Drummer. Author: Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation. Media bloviator.
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