FactCheck.org has been honored with a National Headliner Award for online beat reporting of government and political coverage for a series showing how Project 2025 was implemented across the federal government.
FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, received a first place award in its category for the series “How Project 2025 Has Unfolded Under Trump,” by Eugene Kiely, a former director of FactCheck.org.
In its commendation, the Headliner Awards wrote that the series is a “powerful deep dive that showed how Project 2025 was implemented across the federal government. Excellent explanatory lookback at promises made and kept — with an easy-to-navigate presentation.”
This is the second year in a row that FactCheck.org has been honored with a National Headliner Award. In 2025, FactCheck.org won the online beat reporting award in government and political coverage for a series of stories fact-checking then presidential candidate Donald Trump on immigration issues.
The Headliner Awards, which honor journalistic excellence, were founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City (N.J.).
The initial story in FactCheck.org’s series, “Trump, Project 2025 and the ‘Dismantling’ of the ‘Administrative State,’” notes that during the last presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump claimed to know “nothing about Project 2025” – a policy manual published by the Heritage Foundation and written by veterans of his first administration along with other conservatives – despite evidence to the contrary.
The series lays out “numerous examples of how Trump has implemented Project 2025 proposals and how at times he diverged from the document.”
FactCheck.org was founded in 2003 by APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson and journalist Brooks Jackson, who previously worked for the Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, and CNN.
