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Judicial races receive far less attention, but the often unknown candidates who win those races will make decisions that can significantly impact your community.

Here is a step-by-step guide you can follow to identify PPP loans to political candidates, their businesses and their spouses.

We'll share some of the resources, tools and lessons learned from our training sessions and research help desk. We hope you can use these as you plan your continuing accountability coverage and start thinking about the next election on the horizon.

When community members are no longer voters, their needs become diffuse once again and there is no clear, focusing mandate. So many newsrooms slip back into the usual: politics coverage driven by politicians and press releases. How do we avoid that backslide?

How can we avoid that backslide this time? 

What news organizations continue to do in the days and weeks ahead will matter more than ever. They will bring people into community conversations or exclude them. They will create understanding or sow confusion.

This list of election coverage resources is meant to provide journalists with tools they can use immediately in their work during the election week and in the weeks ahead.

While news organizations focus on the Nov. 5 vote, how might this coverage prepare for the work to come after? How does that energy build to something more robust and sustained?

Medill’s Local News report finds ongoing industry-wide issues — and a few bright spots  This week, the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University released [...]

Election Day is one of those news events that can catch newsrooms off guard because planning is often designed around getting the results and reporting them, as opposed to unforeseen problems at the polls.

We see in research how trusted messengers matter for news that’s shared. We know Millennials and Gen Z pay for or donate to support email newsletters or video or audio from independent creators at higher rates than newspapers.