Lucas Graves

Affiliation: University of Alabama, School of Journalism and Strategic Media

Research focus: fact-checking, journalism professionalism, news credibility, transnational journalism studies, ethnographic methods in journalism research.

Key papers

• Boundaries Not Drawn: Mapping the institutional roots of the global fact-checking movement — Mapping the institutional roots of the global fact-checking movement (2016). Ethnographic study of fact-checking organizations across three institutional axes (journalism, academia, politics/civil society).

Notes

Lucas Graves is a leading scholar of fact-checking and journalism professionalism. His work emphasizes ethnographic and comparative approaches to understanding how journalism norms are contested, adapted, and practiced globally. He is particularly known for rigorous attention to institutional differences and the ways that professional categories (journalist, researcher, activist) intersect and blur in emerging fields like fact-checking.