Dinah Voyles

Dinah Voyles Pulver is a seasoned journalist with over 30 years of experience in the field. She currently serves as a national correspondent and climate & environment reporter at USA Today, focusing on topics such as environment, climate change, and extreme weather events. Voyles has received numerous accolades for her environmental journalism work, including the Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism four times. She has covered a wide range of stories throughout her career, from counting alligators at midnight to covering hurricanes and starting a prescribed fire with a drip torch. As a native Floridian and grandma who loves the outdoors, fast cars, genealogy, and making elaborate cakes and costumes, Voyles has visited all 50 states by the age of 50.

Biography:  https://www.usatoday.com/staff/5222745002/dinah-voyles-pulver/

94%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

98%

Examples:

  • Dinah Voyles Pulver is a national correspondent and climate & environment reporter at USA Today. She has won multiple awards for her environmental journalism, including the Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism four times.
  • Her work focuses on environment, climate change, and extreme weather events.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • No conflicts of interest detected.

Contradictions

86%

Examples:

  • In an article about the Maui wildfires, Voyles reported that the fires were the deadliest in modern US history; however, she contradicted herself by stating that there was a lack of preparedness and communication breakdowns which contributed to the severity of the fires.

Deceptions

84%

Examples:

  • In the same article about the Maui wildfires, Voyles used deceptive language by describing the fires as 'devastating' and 'deadliest in modern U.S. history', without providing proper context or sources for these claims.
  • She also mentioned concerns such as a lack of disaster preparation, insufficient rescue personnel and gear, and communication breakdowns, but did not clarify if these were direct causes or contributing factors to the severity of the fires.

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