PolitiFact

PolitiFact was launched in 2007 to fact-check the 2008 presidential campaign and has since published more than 11,500 fact-checks. It fact-checks television, news and radio pundits through a spin-off website PunditFact, and it has built a national network of fact-checking websites operating in 14 states - including in pivotal presidential primary states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio and Colorado. PolitiFact also is partnering with NBC News and E.W. Scripps Co. to broadcast its fact-checks in 24 local television markets. Among its numerous accolades, Politifact won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, one of 10 Pulitzers the Tampa Bay Times has earned. PolitiFact is a division of the Tampa Bay Times, a Top Ten newspaper with the largest circulation in the South - an average of 367,936 Sunday and 297,626 daily (AAM Annual Audit 2014). The Times is independently owned by The Poynter Institute.