Matt Waite: ‘The key lesson I learned building PolitiFact’
April 29th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
Matt Waite, the principal developer of Pulitzer-prize winning PolitiFact, ‘a data-driven site that fact checks things powerful people in Washington D.C. are saying,’ shares the lessons he learnt while building the site. ‘Demos, not memos’, is key, he says.
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