Charles William Young, St. Petersburg Times earns two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism (2009)
“ Washington Bureau Chief Bill Adair and his team won the only Pulitzer Prize awarded this year by Columbia University for content created for the web. They earned the honor in the National Reporting category for PolitiFact, a website at www.politifact.com conceived by Bill Adair to test the validity of political statements. ”
Charles William Young, St. Petersburg Times earns two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism (2009)
“ PolitiFact became such a valuable source of information during last fall's campaign season that it was quoted regularly by national news organizations. Madam Speaker, Please join me in congratulating Lane DeGregory, Bill Adair, and his team for a job well done in earning journalism's highest honor this week. They have set the standard for human interest and political reporting as judged by the peers in their field of work. ”
Charles William Young, St. Petersburg Times earns two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism (2009)
“ The creation of PolitiFact will be of special interest to our colleagues in the House. The PolitiFact team, led by Bill Adair, included editors Scott Montgomery and Amy Hollyfield, reporter and researcher Angie Drobnic Holan, reporters Robert Farley and Alexander Lane, news technologist Matthew Waite and designer Martin Frobisher. ”
