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Jack Izzo is an accomplished journalist and media professional currently serving as a Reporter at Snopes.com since October 2023. Previous experience includes producing music content at WNUR 89.3FM and writing about Northwestern athletics for InsideNU. Jack has also interned at Popular Science, where responsibilities included writing, editing, and fact-checking articles while engaging with a large audience on social media. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Journalism with a double major in Psychology from Northwestern University, complemented by minors in Italian and Data Science. Prior roles also highlight experience in lifeguarding and swim instruction, along with co-founding a media publication.
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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.