Author Archives: Nancy Watzman

About Nancy Watzman

Nancy Watzman is Managing Editor, Television Archive.

TV News Record: Donald Trump Jr makes “email” popular on TV again

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

This week the term “email” took on a new meaning in the annals of political controversy, President Donald Trump traveled to Poland, and the Senate continued to struggle with health care reform. Email back on TV following Trump Jr.’s release … Continue reading →

TV News Record: Focus on North Korea

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman Following the U.S. government’s confirmation that North Korea had successfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, we focus on statements by public officials and pundits on the nuclear threat from the Korean Peninsula, including some … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News, Television Archive | Tagged Anderson Cooper 360, Chuck Schumer, CNN, Donald Trump, Fox News, Mitch McConnell, MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi, North Korea, Paul Ryan, PolitiFact, Rex Tillerson, The Rachel Maddow Show, Tucker Carlson Tonight | Comments Off

TV News Record: Fox on CNN, getting Gorsuch right + fact-checks

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

We changed our name! Our weekly updates from the TV News Archive are now titled TV News Record, to reflect our goal of providing many ways for viewers to put the news in context, whether through fact checks from our … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Television Archive | Tagged Ainsley Earhardt, Donald Trump, Factcheck.org, ICE, Kellyanne Conway, Neil Gorsuch, PolitiFact, Supreme Court, Television Explorer, The Washington Post's Fact Checker | Comments Off

Knight Prototype Fund winners use TV News Archive to fight misinformation

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

We are delighted to report that two of 20 winners recently announced Knight Prototype Fund’s $1 million challenge to combat misinformation will directly draw on the TV News Archive. One of these is the Bad Idea Factory’s “Glorious ContextuBot.” Let’s say you come across a … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged Bad Idea Factory, Contextubot, Democracy Fund, fact checking, Hyperaudio, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Joostware, Knight Prototype Fund, Laurian Gridnoc, Mark Boas, misinformation, Rita Allen Foundation, Trint, TV news archive | 1 Comment

TV news fact-checked: health care & more + this press briefing will not be televised

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman This week the Senate released its version of health care, so to mark the occasion we offer a trio of recent health care fact checks from The Washington Post‘s Fact Checker. Other fact-checking highlights include: a claim … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Television Archive | Tagged CNN, Donald Trump, fact check, Health care, Ivanka Trump, Jim Acosta, jobs, Mitch McConnell, PolitiFact, Saudi Arabia, The Washington Post's Fact Checker, Trump hotels, TV news archive | Comments Off

TV news fact-checked: Donald and Ivanka Trump

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Katie Dahl Our fact-checking partners spent time on the Trumps this week, covering Ivanka Trump’s claim about women in STEM occupations and the President’s claims about James Comey and Michael Flynn, record-setting nominations delays, how long it actually took … Continue reading →

Posted in Television Archive | Tagged Donald Trump, Factcheck.org, Ivanka Trump, James Comey, Michael Flynn, PolitiFact, The Washington Post's Fact Checker | Comments Off

TV news fact-checked: Trump, Pruitt, Gore, and Handel

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Katie Dahl In this week’s roundup of fact-checked TV news, the term “travel ban” gets a final word from the president, new coal mining jobs numbers are questioned, Gore and Pruitt give competing claims about Paris Agreement target requirements, … Continue reading →

Posted in Television Archive | Tagged Al Gore, Donald Trump, Factcheck.org, John Kelly, John Kerry, Karen Handel, Paris agreement, PolitiFact, Scott Pruitt, The Washington Post's Fact Checker | Comments Off

TV news fact-checked: climate change edition

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Katie Dahl & Nancy Watzman With President Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that the U.S. would pull out of the international Paris climate agreement dominating TV news screens, we devote this round up to the issue of climate change. Global … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Television Archive | Tagged Donald Trump, Factcheck.org, Jeff Sessions, John Kelly, Paris agreement, PolitiFact, Rex Tillerson, Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt, The Washington Post's Fact Checker, Tom Price | 1 Comment

TV news fact-checked: Gianforte, Gingrich, Pelosi & more

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Nancy Watzman and Katie Dahl In this week’s round-up from the TV News Archive, our fact-checking partners declare that Greg Gianforte, now Montana’s U.S. House representative-elect, was the aggressor in a conflict with a reporter; Newt Gingrich spread a conspiracy … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Television Archive | Tagged Ben Jacobs, Carter Page, Factcheck.org, Greg Gianforte, Maxine Waters, Mick Mulvaney, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, Paul Manafort, Paul Ryan, PolitiFact, Rod Wheeler, Steve Mnuchin, The Washington Post's Fact Checker, WikiLeaks, Wisconsin | Comments Off

TV news fact-checked: Comey, Schumer, McMaster, Mueller

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

It was a yet another extraordinary week in U.S. politics, with a series of explosive news reports centering on President Donald Trump. The TV News Archive is saving history as it happens, as well as linking relevant fact-checks by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News, Television Archive | Tagged Charles Schumer, Donald Trump, fact check, fact checking, Factcheck.org, FBI, H.R. McMaster, James Comey, Justice Department, Meet the Press, PolitiFact, Robert Mueller, Russia, State of the Union, The Washington Post's Fact Checker | Comments Off