FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC), has been honored with the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2025 Award for Fact Checking for a set of three articles fact-checking President Donald Trump’s claims about tariffs.
The winning entry, comprising stories by senior writer D’Angelo Gore and deputy director Robert Farley, examined a number of claims about the tariffs. Among those were the misleading calculations used for “reciprocal tariffs” the president sought to impose on nations around the world; the misleading justification for higher tariffs on imports of European goods; and the repeated, false insistence that the tariffs would be paid by other countries and not by American consumers.
“Judges said calling out deliberate falsehoods and misstatements is increasingly important in journalism,” the SPJ said during the virtual awards ceremony on July 9. “Here, [the president’s] tariff numbers and statements have been carefully analyzed with the facts clearly presented. Important work, well done.”
Read the award-winning stories:
- Trump’s Misleading Tariff Chart (April 3, 2025)
- Trump’s Misleading Justification for Higher Tariffs on Imports of EU Goods (July 29, 2025)
- Recapping Trump’s Deceptive Tariff Claims (Aug. 13, 2025)
FactCheck.org previously won the 2019, 2020 and 2023 Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) fact-checking awards. The fact-checking site, co-founded at the policy center in 2003 by then APPC director Kathleen Hall Jamieson and journalist Brooks Jackson, also won a 2010 SDX non-deadline reporting award for independent news sites for its work on deceptive claims made about federal health care legislation.
The Society of Professional Journalists, originally founded as Sigma Delta Chi, has been honoring outstanding journalism since 1932.
A version of this post was originally posted by FactCheck.org on July 13, 2026. Read it here.
