In June, I attended the Global Fact-Checking Summit in London. About 50 fact-checkers from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Australia attended. The conference was hosted by the Poynter Institute, organized by Duke University’s Bill Adair (PolitiFact’s founding editor), and funded by the Omidyar Network, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Ford Foundation, craigconnects, the Duke Reporters’ Lab and Full Fact.
The conference was fantastic, and seeing London for the first time was a real treat. Here are a few photos and comments from my trip. Click on the first photo to launch the gallery.
The Poynter Institute hosted the meeting in London, June 9-10, 2014.
This group photo was taken outside our meeting space at the London School of Economics.
I presented on best practices in fact-checking and how to use Twitter to fact-check live events.
Will Moy of U.K.’s Full Fact and Bill Adair of Duke University debate the use of ratings in fact-checking.
The London Eye at night! We had fantastic weather for the conference.
“Twelve Angry Men” was a London play I saw while I was there.
At Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, I saw “Antony and Cleopatra,” starring the phenomenal Eve Best.
Blue skies greeted me at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
At the British Library, I saw the Magna Carta, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Jane Austen’s writing desk, and a final draft of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre.” Outside the library, this statue of Isaac Newton measures the universe.
