Angie Drobnic Holan
Director, International Fact-Checking Network
Group: GF8 Speakers, Instructor, MW/ALA/Stanford: Advisory Board, staff, UFA Host
Angie Drobnic Holan is the director of the International Fact-Checking Network, which supports and promotes fact-checking worldwide. Before assuming that role in June 2023, Holan served as editor-in-chief of PolitiFact, the U.S. fact-checking site, for 10 years. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She served on the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network.
She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s of library science from the University of South Florida. Her undergraduate degree is from the Plan II liberal arts program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a native of Louisiana and attended the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts.