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Matt Waite


A professor of practice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Matt Waite founded the Drone Journalism Lab there in November of 2011 to study how drones could be used to report news. Previously, he was the Senior News Technologist at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida where he developed PolitiFact, the first website to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2009.