Snopes.com
David Emery is an experienced editor and writer with a career spanning from 1995 to the present. Currently serving as Editor of Standards and Trust and Story Editor at Snopes.com since July 2016, Emery has previously held positions such as Calendar Editor at Marin Independent Journal and Writer/Editor/Topic Expert at About.com, where over 2,000 pages of original content were produced. Emery has a strong background in freelance writing for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGATE, and has also contributed to Iron Skillet Magazine and TriStar Television. With a B.A. in Philosophy from Portland State University and graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, Emery is recognized for a distinctive writing style acknowledged by industry peers.
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Snopes.com
The Snopes.com website was founded by David Mikkelson, a project begun in 1994 as an expression of his interest in researching urban legends that have since grown into the oldest and largest fact-checking site on the Internet — one widely regarded by journalists, folklorists, and laypersons alike as one of the world’s essential resources.Snopes.com is routinely included in annual “Best of the Web” lists and has been the recipient of two Webby awards. Snopes.com personnel have made multiple appearances as guests on national news programs such as 20/20, ABC World News, CNN Sunday Morning, and NPR’s All Things Considered, and they and their work have been profiled in numerous major news publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Reader’s Digest.Over twenty years later, Snopes.com has come to be regarded as an online touchstone of research on rumors and misinformation. The site’s work has been described as painstaking, scholarly, and reliable, and has been lauded by the world’s top folklorists, including Jan Harold Brunvand, Gary Alan Fine, and Patricia Turner. Hundreds of the site’s articles have been cited by authors in a variety of disciplines, and various of their articles have been published in textbooks currently in use in the U.S. and Canadian school systems.