Claire Wardle is the Research Director at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Prior to joining Columbia, she designed the social media training programme for the BBC in 2009 and went on to train journalists around the world on social newsgathering and verification. For two years Claire has worked with Storyful, leading news agency specializing in verification of UGC. Claire has a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.