Bill Adair is an award-winning journalist, the author of two books and a global leader in political fact-checking. He is the creator of PolitiFact and the co-founder of the International Fact-Checking Network. He serves as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (with the PolitiFact staff), the Manship Prize for New Media in Democratic Discourse, and the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond the Big Lie.