👤 Jordan Smith

1 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
1
2026-09-06 – 2026-09-06
Claims per article
91
91 extracted in total
Hedged claims
4%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
12,578
characters
Writes for The Intercept.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Crime & Law
100%
Most-tagged topics
Harris CountyHoustonNorth HoustonStateTexas

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.49 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-06 · The Intercept · Crime & Law
A True-Crime Star’s Lurid Claims Sent a Man to Die. Her Key Witness Just Recanted.
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

What they said would happen

2026-09-06 · The Intercept
A True-Crime Star’s Lurid Claims Sent a Man to Die. Her Key Witness Just Recanted.
🔮 Twenty-four years after he provided crucial testimony that helped send a man to Texas’s death row, DNA expert William Watson has recanted his opinion and called out Harris County prosecutors — including an assistant district attorney turned true-crime TV star — for distorting his conclusions to win a conviction. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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