Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale (born March 28, 1985) is a Canadian journalist who served as the Toronto Star's Washington bureau chief from 2015 to 2019.[1] Dale was hired in June 2019 as a CNN reporter based in Washington.

Daniel Dale
Born (1985-03-28) March 28, 1985
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma materYork University (BBA)
OccupationJournalist

Early life and education

Dale was born to a Jewish family and raised in Thornhill, Ontario.[2] He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from York University's Schulich School of Business.[1]

Career

After graduating from university, he worked for the Toronto Star as their Toronto City Hall reporter and bureau chief covering the administration of Mayor Rob Ford.[1]

After four years, Dale moved to the United States where he has focused on the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.[1] Dale arrived in Washington, D.C., to serve as the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star in 2015.[3][4][5]

In June 2019, Dale left the Toronto Star to join CNN.[6][7][8][9] According to CNN, "Daniel Dale is a reporter in CNN's Washington Bureau, where he fact-checks President Trump, 2020 presidential candidates, and others."[10]

Rob Ford controversy

In 2013, then-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made disparaging remarks about Dale as part of "meddling media," and accused Dale of taking pictures of Ford's children on his property.[11] Ford later retracted the accusations, stating, "there was absolutely no basis for the statement I made about Mr. Dale taking pictures," in response to Dale launching a lawsuit against him. After a lengthy apology from Ford, Dale cancelled the lawsuit.[12]

Fact-checking of Donald Trump

Dale has written about his fact-checking of Donald Trump's statements in The Washington Post on November 16, 2018; in the Toronto Star; in Politico Magazine in October 2016;[13] and in an interview with Toronto Life.[14]

Dale has maintained a list of President Trump's questionable and untrue statements and tweets that other journalists have used in their reporting. For instance, on October 23, 2018, Judy Woodruff of PBS Newshour heard from Dale that Trump's dishonesty was increasing.[4][15][16][17][18][1][19][20][21][22][23] Mehdi Hasan had Dale on his podcast Deconstructed to talk about Trump's lies,[24] while The Washington Post's Daniel W. Drezner used Dale as a major source in an article on Trump's false claims about Medicare.[25] As of 2019, Dale wrote a regular "Facts First" column in CNN Politics and regularly appeared on CNN to fact-check presidential debates and other political events.[26][27][28][29]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "Authors: Daniel Dale, Washington Bureau Chief". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. Baylen, Ashley (13 March 2014). "Top 20 Under 40 – Daniel Dale". Shalom Life.
  3. Erica Hill (2018-10-22). "Reporter: Don't assume that facts don't matter". CNN. Retrieved 2018-10-27. Toronto Star's Daniel Dale speaks with CNN's Erica Hill about his experience fact-checking President Donald Trump, saying there is hope for the American electorate.
  4. Judy Woodruff (2018-10-23). "Fact checkers identify increasing rates of false claims by the president". PBS Newshour. Retrieved 2018-10-27. Daniel Dale, you cover the White House closely. And I know there's been attention paid to what the president says, remarks that cannot be borne out by facts since he took office. But you have observed there is more of this taking place now.
  5. "On CNN, Daniel Dale explains the value of fact-checking Trump's lies". Media Matters. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-27. Dale: 'There's also, I think, a ton of people out there who have shown me that they value this work, that they do care about facts. I've even had Trump supporters say, well, I knew that he wasn't always honest, but I didn't know that he lied this much.'
  6. Tubb, Ed (5 June 2019). "Washington bureau chief Daniel Dale does his last Trump fact check for the Toronto Star". thestar.com.
  7. Ed Tubb (2019-06-06). "Reporter Daniel Dale does his last Trump fact check for the Toronto Star". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2019-06-21. Donald Trump has now said more than 5,000 false things as U.S. president — 5,276 as of last Sunday, to be exact. That's the latest and final count from Daniel Dale, the Star's Washington bureau chief, who is leaving the paper to join CNN later this month.
  8. "One of Canada's most famous journalists is heading to CNN to cover Trump full-time". Daily Hive. 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2019-06-21. The award-winning political reporter says he will be working with CNN 'on the truth beat full-time starting June 17, dissecting dishonesty from Trump, Democratic candidates, and others.'
  9. "As seen on TV: 9 Canadian broadcasters and journalists who made it in America". CBC News. 2019-06-05. Archived from the original on 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2019-06-21. The jump comes after Dale has spent several years working for the Star in Washington, fact-checking the claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump — an approach that has got him noticed by readers on both sides of the border.
  10. CNN Profiles - Daniel Dale - Reporter - CNN
  11. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-kids-quote-sparks-controversy-with-toronto-star-1.2458389
  12. "Daniel Dale Drops Rob Ford Lawsuit After Mayor Issues Second Apology". The Huffington Post. 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2019-06-21. 'I wholly retract my statements and apologize to Mr. Dale without reservation for what I said,' Ford said in an open letter. 'I sincerely hope that Mr. Dale will accept my personal apology for my comments and all harm my words have caused him.'
  13. Daniel Dale (2018-11-16). "It's easy to fact check Trump's lies. He tells the same ones all the time". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-06-21. I've made it my mission to fact-check every word Donald Trump utters as president. That means trying to watch every speech, read every transcript, decipher every tweet. I've accidentally established a reputation for using Twitter to point out that he's lying within seconds of him telling a lie.
  14. "Q&A: Daniel Dale, the Star reporter who has covered both Ford and Trump", by Courtney Shea, March 16, 2016, Toronto Life
  15. Daniel Dale (2019-06-19). "Fact check: Trump's Orlando rally featured more than 15 false claims over 76 minutes". CNN. Washington DC. Retrieved 2019-06-21. President Donald Trump kicked off his formal reelection campaign Tuesday night with a rally in Orlando. His 76-minute speech featured more than 15 false statements, many of them ones that he's repeated frequently in the past.
  16. U.S. President Trump's false claims increasing: Daniel Dale on YouTube
  17. Daniel Dale (2016-10-19). "Confessions of a Trump Fact-Checker. I spent 33 days fact-checking 253 Donald Trump falsehoods. Here's what I've learned". Politico. Retrieved 2019-06-21. I'm now spending much of my time immersed in Trump's dishonesty. I'm the Washington correspondent for Canada's Toronto Star newspaper, and since September 15, I've published a daily tally—or as close to a daily tally as I can produce while also sleeping occasionally—of every false claim the Republican presidential candidate has uttered in a speech or interview.
  18. "Counting Trump's lies: Daniel Dale's relentless quest to fact-check the president". CBC Radio. 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2019-06-21. He tallies and live-tweets the false claims and, as of June 2, his database has counted 5,276 false claims since the day Trump was inaugurated.
  19. Brett Popplewell (2018-05-10). "Inside the Toronto Star's Bold Plan to Save Itself: Can Canada's most storied daily convince readers that its brand of journalism is worth paying for?". The Walrus. Retrieved 2019-06-21. Dale fires off the tweet to his more than 300,000 followers around the globe. A brand unto himself, he is one of the few journalists whose Twitter following is bigger than the paid circulation of his own newspaper—which, for much of its 126-year history, has been the largest and most influential daily in Canada—an institution that served as the inspiration for Clark Kent's Daily Planet.
  20. Patt Morrison (2019-05-29). "Meet Daniel Dale, the man with the Herculean job of keeping track of Trump's lies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-06-21. Dale arrived in D.C. in time to cover the last two years of the Obama administration — and the ascending candidacy of Donald Trump. Since September 2016, he has kept a running tally of every untruth, false claim and outright lie by candidate and then President Trump.
  21. Daniel Dale (2019-04-24). "Trump invents imaginary machine, touts imaginary poll number, warns of imaginary conspiracy". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2019-06-21. Last week, with 31 false claims, was his 50th-worst in office out of 118 weeks so far. The week before that, with 24 false claims, was the 75th-worst. Trump is now up to 4,913 false claims for the first 822 days in office, an average of 6.0 per day.
  22. Benjamin Hart (2019-04-17). "Daniel Dale on Whether President Trump Believes His Own Lies". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-21. Dale compiles all the lies in a database and tracks the president's dishonesty over time, taking a quantitative approach to a presidency that often feels impossible to classify. Intelligencer spoke with him about why Trump lies, whether American journalists give him too much leeway, and his favorite presidential falsehood.
  23. Daniel Dale (2019-06-06). "Donald Trump has now said more than 5,000 false things as president". Toronto Star. Washington DC. Retrieved 2019-06-21. It took Donald Trump 343 days to utter 1,000 false claims as president. Then his dishonesty accelerated. It took him just 197 days to get to 2,000 false claims.
  24. "The top 10 Trump lies and why they matter (with Daniel Dale)", Nov. 21, 2018
  25. Daniel W. Drezner (2018-10-23). "Donald Trump's fast and furious campaign lies". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2018-11-29. Retrieved 2018-10-27. The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale is not just tweeting about this. Here is Dale's latest story on Trump's repeated lies...
  26. Fact check: Trump says he's a 'very honest guy' while making multiple false claims, by Daniel Dale, Holmes Lybrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN, July 5, 2019
  27. Facts First: "'Sir' alert: This one word is a telltale sign Trump is being dishonest", Analysis by Daniel Dale, CNN, July 16, 2019
  28. "Fact check: Trump made false claim to Ukrainian president to justify his Biden request." By Daniel Dale and Marshall Cohen, CNN, September 25, 2019
  29. Fact check: Analysis by Daniel Dale, CNN

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