Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a research paper,“Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: Analyzing PolitiFact.com and Washington Post “Fact-Checker” Assessments of 2012 Presidential Campaign Content,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, CA.
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Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a lecture entitled, “Evaluating Public Opinion Polls: A Brief Introduction to Survey Research,” in Washington for the Macedonia Media Leaders Program (MMLP), an international journalism initiative sponsored by the International Research & Exchanges Board.