Description
Presidential candidates offer promises; sometimes ones they can’t or won’t keep. How can voters decide whom to trust and what to believe? Learn about the best fact-checkers, the challenges for journalists, the role of artificial intelligence, and how to distinguish real news from fake news. Longtime broadcast journalist Kathleen McCleery offers tips on how to tell truth from lies before heading to the polls in November.
Kathleen McCleery has been a broadcast journalist for more than 4 decades. She was the deputy executive producer for the PBS NewsHour. Since moving to New Mexico in 2013, she’s reported and produced stories on a variety of topics including politics, the environment, education, health care, and the arts. She covered Presidential elections from 1980 to 2012 and taught journalism seminars at Princeton University focused on media coverage of elections.